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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"jokes"”.
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Jokes from the Gallows
<p>The following story and introduction focus on compassion. I explore this theme through comedy, specifically dark humor, as a way of talking about some of the darkest times a person can experience and how compassion from others can help in those moments. The main character of the story works as a …
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Inside Jokes: English Language Humor From the Outside
<p>Humor is a complex and dynamic mode of communication that serves a number of important social functions. While humor is found in all cultures, English language learners (ELLs) in the United States must learn to navigate American humor with all of its inherent cultural, social and linguistic …
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Jokes on the Four Books: Cultural criticism in early modern China
Jokes were considered low and insignificant in traditional Chinese literature. Ssu-shu hsiao is witty and provocative, different from other conventional and contemporary jestbooks for its parodic relationship with the Four Books, which were the core-texts of Neo-Confucianism and civil service …
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"if More Women Knew More Jokes...": The Comic Dramaturgy Of Sarah Ruhl And Sheila Callaghan
<p>Conversations around women and comedy are few, and tend to swirl around the tired question of whether or not women are funny. Conclusions usually range from, "They're not" to a few token funny women whose exceptional wit proves the rule that, in fact, women are not funny. Or, if women are funny, …
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What's in a laugh? Humour, jokes and laughter in the conversational corpus of the BNC
… of structural properties in the construction of jokes to a description of laughter and humour in everyday interaction. Canned joke performances are approached from two angles. First, by adopting a primarily macroscopic point of view towards the data, a number of extralinguistic criteria (e.g. who …
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Speaking Distress Out of Being: An Exploration of Memes and Expressive Phrases as Jokes and Coping Mechanisms for University Students
Shorthand phrases and meme culture have become rampant among university students when expressing their experiences in institutional spaces. This thesis explores the use of such phrases and memes among students as they navigate the various pressure and stressors of being undergraduate students …
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Women’s Internalization and Rejection of Sexist Humour
… or belittling) versus neutral (non-sexist) jokes, as well as to examine individual differences predicting these reactions. We found that women overall rated sexist jokes as less amusing and inoffensive than neutral jokes. Critically, however, women’s endorsement of greater hostile sexism …
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Entertainment Bias: A Case Study of the Tonight Show and the California Gubernatorial Recall Election in 2003
… detailed descriptive analysis of monologue jokes and summary data for the time period March 31, 2003 to October 6, 2003. In total, there were 388 jokes from monologues of the Tonight Show analyzed. These jokes were broken down into categories based on their content and the subject. They were …
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Bumbling Biddies and Drunken Pats: Anti-Irish Humor in Antebellum New Orleans
… decipher the city's attitudes towards the Irish. Jokes in particular are explored, their function being multifaceted. First, jokes grouped Irish women into three types in an effort to maintain control of a large and unfamiliar group of white women who did not fit into the preexisting framework for …
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Effects of violent video games on sexual aggression in males
… 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 laboratory. The researchers of this study did find a significant interaction …
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Religiosity as a protective factor against sexual aggression
… that religiosity would predict the number of jokes told by participants such that individuals with higher rates of religiosity would tell fewer jokes than those with lower rates of religiosity. There was a total of 76 participants that answered questionnaires about their religiosity and took …
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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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Nabokov’s humor: the play of consciousness
… individual works incorporating large numbers of jokes to tremendous effect, to the point that enjoyment of Nabokov 's art is to some extent indistinguishable from engagement with his humor. Why is Nabokov 's art so robustly funny? Humor theorists, in varied words and with differing degrees of …
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Tarpukario spaudos Šiauliuose raida: „Momentas“, „Mūsų momentas“, „Įdomus mūsų momentas“ /
… with similar information. “Momentas”: Chronicle, Jokes, Various, Review of living days, “Mūsų momentas”: Jokes, Sports, “Įdomus mūsų momentas” included new columns Here and abroad, For free hour, Our scout corner, News for women. The weekly were regional periodicals: most articles were about …
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Problems With Truth: Scope, Mixing, and Truth Pluralism
… physical world. A true proposition about funny jokes will be true because of a truth property pertaining to funny jokes. The nature of truth is variant across discourses, but there is no domain in which a pluralistic truth theory cannot provide an explanation for the truth of true propositions. …
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Perceptions of Sexual Activity from Staff and Youth in a State Juvenile Facility
… sexual activity including consensual sex, sexual jokes, gestures, and touches, bribery for sexual acts and sex by force in which the victim was received minor injuries, serious injuries, or death. Using statistical tools and tests such as frequency distributions, Cronbach’s alpha reliability test, …
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