Celebrity anti-Semitism – A translation studies perspective

Weissbrod, Rachel

doi:10.1016/j.langsci.2014.10.002

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“…The antecedents identified in the study are theories and styles of humour. The key theories used in the context of humour advertisements include the incongruity theory (Yoon & Lee, 2018;Yus, 2017;Shaw, 2010;Cooper, 2008;Yus, 2003), the relief theory (Damanik & Mulyadi, 2020;Sandberg andTutenges, 2019 Dittmer, 2013), and the superiority theory (Barry & Graça, 2018;Weissbrod, 2015;Lintott, 2016;Ferguson & Ford, 2008). Based on these antecedents, some of the popular types of humour recognized in numerous studies include puns, understatement, overstatement, satire and ludicrous (as shown in Table 2).…”

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“…The concept of humour here is laid on the idea that finding amusement in the flaws or misfortunes of others leads to a sudden surge of self-confidence, superiority, or triumph. A sense of superiority is felt toward individuals we laugh at, and it is considered the main essence of humour (Weissbrod, 2015;Ferguson & Ford, 2008). According to the superiority humour theory, all humour originates from the desire to feel superior or have power over others.…”

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A Systematic Literature Review on Humour Advertising: The ADO Model Approach

Thannikkottu,

Dua,

Desai

2023

SDMIMD

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Humour as an appeal is one of the earlier appeals that attracted marketers and has attracted researchers’ interest in recent years. In lieu, the current paper systematically reviews various types of humour. The objective of the current study is to trace the research gaps and furnish directions for future research. The current paper considered articles from 2002–2022 on humour advertising. Multiple research gaps were outlined employing ADO (Antecedents, Decision, and Outcomes) model. The study finds that humour advertising has been effective if the sources are credible. The likability of the brand increases, and that finally affects the buying intention. The potential avenues of research in a similar domain are discussed at the end of the paper. It facilitates practitioners about the various types of humour appeal and methodical thinking to further advancement in the area of humour appealed advertising.

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A Systematic Literature Review on Humour Advertising: The ADO Model Approach

Thannikkottu,

Dua,

Desai

2023

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“…), by performing 'the amazing double of denying the Holocaust while suggesting that the Jews deserved their fate' (Moore, 2014). The 'quenelle' originally refers to a local French dish (Le Figaro, 2014), but is known as a modernised Nazi salute (Weissbrod, 2015). Having semantic ties to the original Nazi salute, the 'quenelle' is performed by straightening one lowered arm, palm flat, with the other arm folded over the chest, also with a flat palm.…”

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“…It was construed as a sign of protest against the French establishment (ibid. : 242), yet it was also interpreted as an inverse-Nazi salute (Weissbrod, 2015). Paired with a silly song, 'Shoahnanas' (Holocaust Pineapples), which made allusions to the Holocaust, as well as various provocative jokes, Dieudonné's comedy crossed the legal lines of permissible speech, and he was fined (Beardsley, 2014).…”

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Considering Ethnic Group Tensions: The Symptomatic Case of French Comedian Dieudonné

Elliott-Harvey

2020

Open Library of Humanities

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This article examines the 2014 case of French comedian Dieudonné and his purported incitement to hatred through his comedy act at the time, which hit national headlines and danced along the line of acceptable speech and making fun of the Holocaust. At the same time, Dieudonné's comedy appealed to a faction of French society that felt relegated and ignored by the French elite, a sentiment that was furthered by a clash between one religious group that has legal protections in place to protect it from Holocaust denial, versus another group that does not have similar protections in place for Islamophobic acts. This case study demonstrates how Dieudonné tapped into these sensitive areas of cultural life by engaging the communicative genres of humour and satire to draw attention to and toy with making fun of the Holocaust, though his comedy act, Le Mur (The Wall), a silly song about the Holocaust, and an arm gesture called the 'quenelle'. Using a textual thematic analysis of online newspaper articles collected at the time from Le Figaro and Le Monde, as well as transcripts from ten in-person, semi-structured interviews conducted in Paris with activists, journalists, politicians, a lawyer, and a comedian, what the findings point to is that while Dieudonné appealed to a disenfranchised audience as a 'provocateur', he also highlighted how key factions of French society are struggling with inclusivity and a lack of social cohesion in a political context where laïcité, the separation of religious life and political life, is sacrosanct. of the topic and the humourous treatment of it, and the dangers that this presents. This article focuses on how, and in what ways, the communicative role of humour and satire facilitated the journey of Dieudonné's comedy by not only undermining the Holocaust, but also as exploiting larger societal and cultural fractures in the French context. The Dieudonné case shows how a comedian, incentivised perhaps for financial reasons, tapped into the cultural frustrations of a group that felt marginalised and undermined, and was propelled by a form of inflammatory speech that was sure to receive attention. So, on the one hand, the issue then not only becomes one of challenging sensitive cultural mores about the remembrance of the Holocaust, but on the other hand requires us to acknowledge that a portion of the French population has not lived a similar history as those linked to the Holocaust. This presents unique challenges to how the cultural memory of an event like the Holocaust is preserved. In a national context where the lived memories of those generations that experienced World War II are being committed to time and history, the question of how events like the Holocaust will be remembered is an important one (Gorrara, 2018: 111). This is also taking into consideration what is sometimes described as a ' cultural obsession', which must acknowledge the tensions between individual memory, collective memory, and representation, because 'memories are constructed and mediated via specific culturally co...

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“…The humanities and social sciences have recently witnessed an explosion of fascinating new research on slurs and derogatory language (see for instance Cepollaro, 2015;Croom, 2015a,b;Jay and Jay, 2015;Beaton and Washington, 2014;Blakemore, 2014;Cupkovic, 2014;Jackson, 2014;O'Dea et al, 2014;Saucier et al, 2014;Weissbrod, 2014;Embrick and Henricks, 2013) and one widely held assumption in the literature -call it coreferentialism -is that slurs (e.g. faggot) and descriptors (e.g.…”

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The semantics of slurs: A refutation of coreferentialism

Croom

2015

Ampersand

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h i g h l i g h t s• Reviews the coreferentialist assumption that slurs and descriptors are coreferential expressions with the same extension.• Considers four sources of empirical evidence showing that slurs and descriptors are not coreferential expressions with the same extension.• Argues that since slurs and descriptors differ in their extension they thereby differ in their meaning or content also. • Introduces the notion of a conceptual anchor in order to adequately account for the relationship between slurs and descriptors.• Outlines a family resemblance account of slurs and explains its merits over competing proposals. a b s t r a c tCoreferentialism refers to the common assumption in the literature that slurs (e.g. faggot) and descriptors (e.g. male homosexual) are coreferential expressions with precisely the same extension. For instance, Vallee (2014) recently writes that ''If S is an ethnic slur in language L, then there is a non-derogatory expression G in L such that G and S have the same extension'' (p. 79). The non-derogatory expression G is commonly considered the nonpejorative correlate (NPC) of the slur expression S (Hom, 2008) and it is widely thought that every S has a coreferring G that possesses precisely the same extension. Yet here I argue against this widespread assumption by first briefly introducing what slurs are and then considering four sources of supporting evidence showing that slurs and descriptors are in fact not coreferential expressions with precisely the same extension. I argue that since slurs and descriptors differ in their extension they thereby differ in their meaning or content also. This article additionally introduces the notion of a conceptual anchor in order to adequately account for the relationship between slurs and descriptors actually evidenced in the empirical data, and further considers the inadequacy of common dictionary definitions of slurs. This article therefore contributes to the literature on slurs by demonstrating that previous accounts operating on the assumption that slurs and descriptors are coreferential expressions with the same extension, and that they thereby have the same meaning or content, are inconsistent with empirical data and that an alternative account in accord with Croom (2011Croom ( , 2013aCroom ( , 2014b better fits the facts concerning their actual meaning and use.

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Celebrity anti-Semitism – A translation studies perspective

Cited by 5 publications

References 26 publications

A Systematic Literature Review on Humour Advertising: The ADO Model Approach

A Systematic Literature Review on Humour Advertising: The ADO Model Approach

Considering Ethnic Group Tensions: The Symptomatic Case of French Comedian Dieudonné

The semantics of slurs: A refutation of coreferentialism

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