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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"joking"”.
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Just joking: jest as a defence to defamation
The South African law of defamation seeks to balance the plaintiff's right to reputation against the defendant's right to freedom of expression. Humour complicates this balance because its appreciation is hyper context-dependent and subjective, rendering the line between serious defamatory …
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(Un)just Kidding: Philosophical Issues in Humour, Comedy and Joking
… humour, and why we tend to think that if you are joking, your words cannot have serious effects; or at any rate if they do, you are not accountable for them. In Chapter Four, I show how jokers can exploit an ambiguity in ‘serious’ to sincerely communicate, whilst being able to plausibly deny that …
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All Joking Aside: The Role of Religion in American Jewish Satire
<p>Jewish humor is a well-known, if ill-defined genre. The prevalence and success of Jewish comedians has been a point of pride for American Jews throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. What I undertake in this dissertation is to isolate one particular form of humor-namely satire-and …
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Carry On Joking: Freud, Laughter and the Hysterical Male in the Carry On films
The popularity of the Carry On films can be measured by the success of the series which ran for twenty years from 1958-1978. Twenty-nine films were made and at the height of their popularity in the 1960s two films a year were being produced to capitalise on the success of the series. Film after …
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Gender and Grade Differences in How High School Students Experience and Perceive Cyberbullying
… than girls to view cyberbullying as a form of joking, and to perpetrate cyberbullying behaviours within intimate relationships. Participants also suggested that juniors cyberbully more than seniors, but cyberbullying becomes more serious in the senior years. How focus group results provided …
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Speaking Distress Out of Being: An Exploration of Memes and Expressive Phrases as Jokes and Coping Mechanisms for University Students
… in this space as it allows for light humor and joking around the often tense and stressful circumstance. This use of humor offers up a release that while not changing the circumstance at hand allows for a suspension of tension just enough to allow students to keep going (pushing and working) …
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African-American males with mental retardation: Friendship formation and maintenance in community-based employment
… Friendship maintenance was aided by humor, joking and teasing, length of involvement as friends, provision of practical support, provision of emotional support, recreational episodes, common interests, and social responsibility on the part of the friends. Findings for this study show that in …
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A presença do brinquedo na rotina da educação infantil
… Tizuko M. Kishimoto , among others. . It is joking that the child gives meaning to their world and develops a meaningful learning, feeling through the act of autonomous and independent play, inserting itself in the society like active subject of rights. The result of the research indicates …
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'One of the boys?' : an ethnographic study of gender relations, co-education, and initial teacher education in physical education
… staff. This involved sexual innuendo and gender joking which was used to put one another down, and to undermine the confidence and skills of women students and staff. As a result, for many of the women, negotiating a gender identity in PE was a difficult and contradictory experience.
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Meaning and process in early adolescent friendship conversations
… fictional and factual storytelling, teasing, joking, problem solving, asking for advice, and displaying physical affection are examples of these means. Self-representations from the conversations were not always consistent with those revealed during self-confrontation interviews, at times in …
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PUBLIC, PRIVATE, PAST, AND PRESENT: AN EXPLORATION OF THE LANGUAGE AND MUSICAL STRUCTURES OF KOTIRIA/WANANO WOMEN’S KAYA BASA ‘SAD SONGS’
… ceremonial forms of speech and unmarried women’s joking songs as a way to think about the resonances of sound and meaning married women create in their songs. Drawing on resources from linguistic anthropology, ethnomusicology, semiotics, and intersectional feminism, I demonstrate that the singing …
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Subjugation and Subterfuge: Struggling with Metrics as a Middle Manager in a UK Business School
… inclusion and exclusion, and emerge as gossip, joking and ribald acts, which have the potential to shift existing power relations. Subterfuge is a ubiquitous emergent pattern which middle managers might expect to see in working with metrics, and which can be paradoxically constructive and …
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Making sense of humour: some pragmatic and political aspects
… insight into what lies beneath the surface of joking behaviour, there is an in-depth look at the important contextual features of performance space and the comic figure. Both of these reveal the significance of licence, transgression, and performer-audience interaction. Then the linguistic …
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Jokes on the Four Books: Cultural criticism in early modern China
… and female same-sex relationship and adultery. Joking on male same-sex sexuality is also discussed. A conclusion recapitulates the key issues of the previous chapters.