Joking Asides: The Theory, Analysis, and Aesthetics of Humor

Oring, Elliott

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“…Laughing at power was done "with a keen eye as to who is within listening distance" (Brandes 1977:335). Elliot Oring contradicts this rather idealist perspective and, in his extensive discussion on the role and characteristics of political humour in autocratic power structures (Oring 2004(Oring :2016 I believe that theorists cannot achieve a consensus on the matter of the actual role and impact of political humour on the fate of oppressive regimes due to the inherent specificity of each historical, ethnic and geographical context. Many factors contribute to a political climate at a given time in history and it is quite probable that political humour could lie on a paradoxical fundamentit does reject, deride and oppose abusive power, but at the same time its force is visible at a small, interpersonal scale, rather than a collective, national one.…”

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Power and Ridicule – Elena CeauȘescu in Communist Humour

Glăvan

2019

Gender Studies

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Although one of the most influential figures of Romanian Communism, Elena Ceaușescu has been the subject of a rather limited literature exploring her historical figure. I intend to revisit the political humour of Romanian communism in order to reveal the manners and strategies employed by this type of folklore in affirming the hyperbolized clichés that defined the dictator’s wife in the public mind of that age. I also intend to bring into discussion the common traditional prejudice that blamed Elena Ceaușescu for her husband’s catastrophic politics that impoverished and isolated Romania in the Eastern Bloc.

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Power and Ridicule – Elena CeauȘescu in Communist Humour

Glăvan

2019

Gender Studies

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“…These notions of script opposition and script overlap, are often taken as the basis for "incongruity theories" of humour (e.g., Oring, 2016), which view an incongruous component as essential for humour. The General Theory of Verbal Humour (GTVH, Attardo and Raskin, 1991), extends the remit of SSTH, to differentiate between verbal and referential humour, and to account for the relative degree of similarity between different jokes.…”

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Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Taboo: Interaction and Creativity in Humour

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In this paper we treat humorous situations as a series of events underpinned by topoi, principles of reasoning recognised within a socio-cultural community. We claim that humorous effect in jokes and other discourse is often created by the juxtaposition of topoi evoked. A prerequisite for this is that there is a shift where the interpreter of the discourse updates their information state with regard to a second topos being evoked. This view of humour is consistent with an incremental analysis of dialogue, and we therefore argue that interaction is central both for humour creation and interpretation. We point out some different ways in which topoi are juxtaposed in humorous dialogues as well as in jokes published in social media or in joke books, and take jokes from the coronavirus pandemic as an example because this makes lots of new topoi available and therefore offers the opportunity of creating novel jokes based on the juxtaposition of the new and existing topoi. We explore how the mechanisms of inference in dialogue can be applied to humour through the four elements from our title: old (existing), new (not previously existing), borrowed (associated with a different situation) and taboo (inappropriate in the context).

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“…Белгілі америкалық фольклорист және әзілді зерттеуші Эллиотт Оринг әзілдің кең тараған жанры анекдоттың адам өміріндегі пайдасы мен әзілді орынды қолданудың өнер екендігін атап көрсеткен болатын [11]. Яғни, адамның дүниетанымы мен ойлау ұшқырлығы оның әзілдерді жылдам әрі мазмұнды құрастыруына түрткі болатыны анықталды.…”

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Social and Emotional Intelligence: Students’ Propensity for a Sense of Humor in Emergency Situations

Belessova¹,

Nabi²

2020

JES

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Joking Asides: The Theory, Analysis, and Aesthetics of Humor

Cited by 55 publications

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Power and Ridicule – Elena CeauȘescu in Communist Humour

Power and Ridicule – Elena CeauȘescu in Communist Humour

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Taboo: Interaction and Creativity in Humour

Social and Emotional Intelligence: Students’ Propensity for a Sense of Humor in Emergency Situations

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