Satire, humor and the construction of identities

Zekavat, Massih

doi:10.1075/thr.6

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“…Basically, the ambassador reflected Billig's argument that the identities of nation-states do not exist in isolation but in relation to "a complex of other nation-states" (Billig 1995: 14, 71). This relational identity involving an 'us' versus a 'them' has been discussed in relation to humour (Zekavat 2017) as well as to the Americanisation of France (Kuisel 1993) and of Australia (White 1981).…”

Section: Anglo-american Conceptual Developments and Nationalismmentioning

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idea of national humour and Americanisation in Australia and Britain

Rolfe

2022

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The widespread notion of a unique national humour involves an impulse to apply the commonplace assumptions of national identity that demand uniqueness of identity, history, language and culture for a political society. What is deemed true and distinctive of the nation must be also be true and distinctive of its national humour, goes the thinking. However, such cultural exclusivity has not been reconciled with cultural exchanges between nations. Paradoxically, conceptions of national humour have been formulated in dynamic tension with such exchanges during the various phases of globalization that have taken place since the 19th century. The Americanisation of humour, in particular, has been an important component of such transmissions and resulted from the commercial popular culture dominated by America since the nineteenth century. Australia is a prime example examined here along with examples from Britain. To complicate matters of transmission, Americanisation sometimes arrived in Australia via Britain as well as directly from America itself. Australians and Britons periodically reacted against American culture, including humour, as a threat to national identity. But this was part of a dynamic tension played out between modern and traditional, imported and local in their selections and adaptations of humour imports from America. There is a huge and historic complexity of cultural anxiety and cultural transfer lying behind the apparent cultural comforts of belonging to a nation-state. Moreover, humour has played its part in the continual discursive recreation of the nation in the form of constant searches for the unique national humour of a people.

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Section: Anglo-american Conceptual Developments and Nationalismmentioning

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idea of national humour and Americanisation in Australia and Britain

Rolfe

2022

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“…The principal consequences of humor in conversation are those that the speaker can achieve directly by employing hilarious passages or texts in his or her speech ( Attardo, 2017). In the same light, according to Zekavat (2017), the functions of humor in the communicative process can be grouped into four classes: social management, decommitment, mediation and functionalization.…”

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Dissecting the types and functions of religious humor in Nasreddin Hoja short-stories

Akmal

Hamidi

Ismed

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Humor is a significant element in funny stories. This study aims to analyze the types and functions of humor in selected Nasreddin’s short stories from the book Nasreddin’s Funniest Stories (2011) by Yusup Priyasudiarja and Y. Sri Purwaningsih. By using the descriptive qualitative method, the study adopts textual analysis to examine the materials. Based on the analysis result, the types of humor applied in the stories are that joke, sarcasm, satire, replies to rhetorical question, clever replies, and double entendres. However, these writings lack some other typical types of spontaneous conversational humor used in short stories’ texts: puns and self-deprecation. Meanwhile, unintentional humor is also not found in the Nasreddin short stories because it is raised from the speaker’s misspellings, mispronunciations, errors in logic, and Freudian slips. Further reading shows that the underlying usage of humor in these stories is for social management: to control and mediate readers.

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“…Conceptualisations of power relations that encompass circulatory rather than top-down flows, and in which institutions, subjects, discourse, and power-knowledge each play a role, can demystify the political implications of humorous intervention. Humour, then, should be understood not only as a weapon of the weak or the strong but as a relational modality implicated in discourse and power, one through which agents and audiences alike can form and manifest oppositional identities (see Bakhtin 2010aBakhtin , 2010bFoucault 1970Foucault , 1984Foucault , 2019Wilson 2011;Krys et al 2017;Zekavat 2017).…”

Section: Political Humour Mattersmentioning

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Contingent dynamics of political humour

Basu

Zekavat

2021

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This article introduces the themes of the special issue. It offers a provisional working conception of “political humour.” It then notes some of the tendencies and challenges for scholarship on political humour, namely, that political humour interacts contingently and conditionally with intentions, contexts, and audiences. The individual articles of the special issue are briefly summarized, and some concluding lessons drawn.

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Satire, humor and the construction of identities

Cited by 18 publications

References 143 publications

idea of national humour and Americanisation in Australia and Britain

idea of national humour and Americanisation in Australia and Britain

Dissecting the types and functions of religious humor in Nasreddin Hoja short-stories

Contingent dynamics of political humour

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