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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"Joke"”.
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"So what's the joke?" : locating Jewish-American female authorship
This thesis examines the fiction of three contemporary Jewish-American female writers, Grace Paley, Cynthia Ozick and Erica Jong, and locates their writing in the context of their quasi-double-marginalization--the yoking of their Jewishness and femaleness. Their texts illustrate their reaction to a …
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Not just a joke : rape culture in Internet memes about #MeToo
… seriously the thesis contends this 'just-a-joke' discourse.
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Women and Humor: A Linguistic and Rhetorical Analysis of Joke Target
… 1994; Attardo, 1994) to analyze some of the joke targets used by these women writers, the dissertation argues that some works of early feminist humor are easily recast as proto feminist humor. Additionally, the dissertation argues that anti-feminist humor authored by Marietta Holley and …
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Not a Joke: Women's Work and Feminist Laughter in Stand-Up Comedy
… meaningful. I reject the notion that a joke could be objectively funny or a comic universally appealing, and instead problematize social constructions of women as unfunny. Through autoethnography and reception studies, I argue that “getting” the joke and finding it funny (or not) depends …
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New media is a joke : tracing irony, satire, and remediation in online discourse
The social and political function of humor in any era is to provide commentary, insight, and catharsis into the concerns facing that time. In this dissertation I investigate the role humor, particularly irony and satire, plays in informing public discourse and civic participation in the …
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"That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore": Humor and Trauma in Postcolonial and Black British Texts
This dissertation examines the ways in which humor and trauma function in some of the most acclaimed postcolonial and black British novels, films, and television series. Unlike other studies that focus on satire and how humor is used to establish or diminish power or defuse conflict, this study …
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The Politics of Getting the Joke: The Effects of Political Humor on Information Seeking Behavior
Political humor plays a positive role in American democracy. It increases the political awareness and interest of the audience. There is a growing body of literature, both empirical and theoretical, that looks at role of political humor in American politics. In line with some of this literature, …
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Women’s Internalization and Rejection of Sexist Humour
… 1 (N=225) was to investigate women’s proximal joke reactions, that is, ratings of amusement and inoffensiveness for sexist (aggressive or belittling) versus neutral (non-sexist) jokes, as well as to examine individual differences predicting these reactions. We found that women overall rated …
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What's in a laugh? Humour, jokes and laughter in the conversational corpus of the BNC
The work investigates humour, laughter and joke performances in natural spontaneous conversations recorded in the UK for the British National Corpus (BNC) and the Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language (COLT). It is a broad-based study that aims to elucidate how humour and laughter function in …
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Religiosity as a protective factor against sexual aggression
… of sexual harassment that uses sexually oriented joke telling to mimic sexual harassment among peers in the real world. It was hypothesized that religiosity would predict the number of jokes told by participants such that individuals with higher rates of religiosity would tell fewer jokes than …
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The Acquisition of Comedic Skills as a Component of Growth and Individuation: Post-Jungian and Psychoanalytic Perspectives.
… arguable that within this alchemical process the joke, on occasion, becomes the trickster. The trickster contains the ambivalent, contradictory, appropriately times message acting as a bullet for incisive revision or disruption of a commonly held social theme or belief. The trickster joke cuts …
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Making sense of humour: some pragmatic and political aspects
… chat show which is interpreted both as a joke and an insult, a situation which cries out for pragmatic attention. This dissertation sets out to uncover what is at work in this interaction by means of a pragmatic approach which uses, critically, some of the essential ideas of speech act …
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(Un)just Kidding: Philosophical Issues in Humour, Comedy and Joking
… with comedy, and demonstrates that when one jokes, one is rarely, if ever, just kidding. In Chapter One, I ask: what does it say about you if you enjoy sexist humour? I start by discussing two existing views on this question, and argue that neither can explain the feeling of unwilling …
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Carry On Joking: Freud, Laughter and the Hysterical Male in the Carry On films
… the same character types telling the same jokes. The aim of this thesis is to explore a number of questions: How were audiences positioned to laugh at the same 'dirty' joke that was told over and over again? What was the relationship between the verbal joke and the visual gag? How …
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The Waltzing Dead : The Merit of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
… few expected the novel to be more than a joke. However, it instead inspired a phenomenon that wholly consumed popular culture. The monster mashup fuses well-known classical literature with traditional horror monsters. In PPZ, the nineteenth-century novel of manners is introduced to the …
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… and believes that his roommates are playing a joke on him. Trying to ignore his friends' insistence that Jesus is indeed in their apartment, Tom attempts to pursue his long term crush. Things become complicated when Tom goes on a date and Jesus tags along. The critical essay that follows …
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Effects of violent video games on sexual aggression in males
… Xbox. After game play, participants engaged in a joke telling paradigm, in which participants were given 10 sexually aggressive jokes, and were instructed to tell between 0-10 of the jokes to a female confederate. The number of jokes told is related to sexually aggressive behaviors outside of the …
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A Jew from Nebraska: An Actors Attempt at Stand-up Comedy
… or a string of one-liners, or a succession of jokes. This performance project and thesis is an examination and an attempt at the art form that we call stand-up comedy. It will answer the question of what is the best approach to writing comedy for an actor finishing his graduate acting program. …
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