Presence Of Humor Research Articles

World War I and “the good old Austrian times” in a novel by Roman Turek W służbie najjaśniejszego pana [In His Majesty’s service

This article is dedicated to the writings of Roman Turek, an author almost forgotten in the present times. In his autobiographical writing he recalls his childhood and youth, spent in his home village Wola Dalsza, situated in the territory of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his army experience from First World War. The article deals with Galician motifs in Turek’s W służbie najjaśniejszego pana [In His Majesty’s service], especially the image of the Great War from a perspective of a resident of Wola Dalsza, a village near Łańcut, as well as a private in the Austro-Hungarian army. Special attention was given to special features of Roman Turek’s writing, creation of his characters, presence of humour and irony, which made the critics draw analogies with the books by Jaroslav Hašek and the literary character he created, i.e. Josef Švejk.

Sex Workers’ Online Humor as Evidence of Resilience

Sex workers’ humor has received comparatively little attention in the literature to date, and work that does consider this phenomenon focuses on humor in face-to-face contexts. Increasingly, elements of sex workers’ labor and community building take place online. This article examines the emergence of sex work humor in online spaces, considering how this humor provides evidence of resilience within this community. The article uses a critical discourse analysis approach blended with a cultural studies lens to examine 171 discrete texts drawn from sex work communities in Australia and New Zealand. These include social media postings from peer-led organizations and correspondence between sex workers and their clients, which was profiled in news media during the COVID-19 lockdowns. The humor evident within these texts falls into three major categories: humor about clients; humor as a mechanism of discussing stigma and discrimination; and humor as an agent of activism and social change. The findings indicate that humor can be evidence of resilience among sex-working communities, that it is politically productive and effective from a communications perspective, and present the possibility that it may also contribute to resilience. The presence of humor in online sex work spaces of sociality further highlights the importance of these spaces for community building, and draws attention to additional harms created by deplatforming.

The values in action character strengths model: a resource for people in addiction recovery

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to examine the Values in Action (VIA) character strengths profile of people in addiction recovery, to identify which strengths are meaningfully represented in this population. This was compared with the generalised profile of a normative population to identify the differentiating features. Reasons for the profile variance and the significance this has for addiction recovery have also been explored.Design/methodology/approachAn independent group design was adopted using purposive sampling. This saw participants (n = 100) complete the VIA Inventory of Strengths-P assessment to establish a character strengths profile for people in addiction recovery. To identify the differences in this profile, a mean score and rank order comparison was conducted, using data taken from a normative population. Additional exploratory analysis was conducted to establish if there were any significant differences in the character strength profile of males and females.FindingsIn descending order, the top five ranked strengths were kindness, humour, honesty, fairness and teamwork. The lesser five strengths in the profile were spirituality, zest, perseverance, prudence and self-regulation. A distinguishing feature was the presence of humour as a top five strength for people in addiction recovery. The existence of teamwork also deviated from the generalised normative population. There were two strengths shown to have a meaningfully higher score for females, teamwork and love. This did not change the strengths present in the overall top five for males or females, however.Originality/valueThis study contributes useful knowledge to the understanding of character strengths in addiction recovery. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first time character strengths have been examined in a sample of people in addiction recovery.

Co(s)mic Vision

The Bhagavata Purana (BhP) is a popular sacred Sanskrit text characterized by its devotion for Krsna and the many narratives concerning him and his incarnations. These narratives have an edifying quality. A great number of them bring their point across through the use of humour. Though the comic tradition of India has been covered by scholars, such studies primarily discuss the performing arts. I argue that there is a strong presence of humour in the BhP, and that this humour communicates a playful attitude which has a prominent place in the overall religiosity of the BhP, thus communicating a worldview I term the co(s)mic vision. This study contributes to the discussion on the ludic dimensions of religious traditions and indicates how religious discourse is established through the entertaining and edifying effects of humour. Narrative is used as an entertaining alternative to religious instruction as exhortation, theological assertion, or propositional excursuses.

МЕТОДИЧЕСКИЕ АСПЕКТЫ ОРГАНИЗАЦИИ МАТЕМАТИЧЕСКОГО КВН ДЛЯ СТУДЕНТОВ ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИХ СПЕЦИАЛЬНОСТЕЙ

The article is devoted to the organization of mathematical KVN. The goals and objectives of this event are spelled out. Attention is drawn to the fact that the content of the competition for students of economic specialties has a number of features. It is concluded that it is necessary to take into account the economic orientation of the competition tasks. The KVN methodology is shown on the material of such traditional contests as Warm-up, Visiting card, Captains contest, Homework, contests for fans. The course of each competition, the purpose of its holding for the jury, for the organizers, is described in detail. In particular, a variant of organizing a warm-up competition using mathematical anecdotes and portraits of mathematicians is shown. The course of the Erudition competition for fans has been registered. Particular attention in the article is paid to home competitions. Using the example of mathematical KVN, held at the Siberian Institute of Business and Information Technologies, the technology of choosing a name for a team, a script for a greeting and a home competition is shown. The proposed scenarios are based on reasoning that violates semiotic transformations. The presence of humor is provided by a violation of the logic of mathematical transformations, which inevitably leads to incorrectness and absurdity of reasoning. The contests demonstrate the paradoxes of mathematics associated with division, multiplication and addition of numbers. The stages of creating a plot for the home competition How I Love Mathematics are detailed. The history of the emergence of a well-known mathematical anecdote called 28/7 = 13, a variant of its transformation for competitive display in an economic university is given. Among the features of the organization of this event, the following was highlighted: the presence of economic and mathematical components of the competition tasks; appeal to such forms of humor as a mathematical anecdote, paradox, sophism. It is noted that the proposed competitions can be easily adapted for conducting KVN in other disciplines, and new ones can be created on their basis.

Effects of Humor and Bystander Gender on Responses to Antigay Harassment

ABSTRACT Individuals perceived to be LGBTQ+ are at risk for harassment. Although bystanders who confront harassers and support targets of harassment may promote inclusivity, the use of humor to express antigay harassment may inhibit prosocial bystander intervention. Non-LGBTQ+ undergraduates (N = 326) were randomly assigned to respond to a scenario in which a male peer disparaged another peer with antigay comments involving either the presence or absence of humor. Results showed that bystanders reported less intent to intervene in the presence of humor than in its absence. Bystander gender moderated perceptions of humorous harassing speech but not intent to intervene. In the presence of humor, men but not women perceived antigay harassment as more amusing; they also perceived the harassing peer more favorably. To promote ally behavior, bystander education may explicitly address critical thinking about the functions and effects of disparaging humor.

JAPANESE ANIMES IN THE CONTEXT OF HUMOR PHILOSOPHY: GLOBAL LOCALITY

In the article, based on the theories of intercultural dialogue, globolocalization and alterglobalism, the semantics of Japanese anime are interpreted as expressions of the philosophy of humor. The presence of humor in Japanese anime is due to the need to symbolize trauma as a phenomenon of aestheticization of disaster associated with apocalyptic scenarios of Japan’s entertainment industry that make up its hidden meaning. Humor’s semiotics is evidenced by his double code as a signified and signifier. The author uses the classification of the functions of humor on Japanese anime matherials: humor as a tool of protest and humor as a tool of legitimation. The author demonstrates that the Japanese tradition goes beyond this opposition by decoding the code itself and presenting humor as intertextual phenomenon (text-intext) and the element of the subject’s restructuring. The interdiscursiveness of Japanese humor as “humor over humor” (hypertext), stemming from the general cosmic syncretism of national culture, illustrates the phenomenon of double bind (taboo and enjoyment, prohibition and encouragement at the same time), putting the viewer and reader in a schizoid situation of the lack of choice. This situation characterizes the polemical receptions of Japanese sensei and reflectives psychoanalytic liberation function of the koan. The humorous double deconstruction of the removal of the opposition is a typical ethnic gesture that has retained its semantic autonomy thanks to the choice by Japan of the project of alterglobalism as a program of dialogue between local traditions and global technologies in the role of a social model for the development

Is smiling during humor so obvious? A cross-cultural comparison of smiling behavior in humorous sequences in American English and French interactions

AbstractThe present article is part of a larger cross-cultural research project on speaker-hearer smiling behavior in humorous and non-humorous conversations in American English and French. The American corpus consists of eight computer-mediated interactions between English native speakers, and the French one consists of four face-to-face interactions between French native speakers. The goal of the study is twofold: first, we analyze the link between smiling and humor, focusing on the degree of synchronicity of smiling and the intensity of smiling during humorous and non-humorous segments; second, we investigate the various targets mobilized in conversational humor. The results obtained comparing the two data-sets show a correlation between the presence of humor, an increased smiling intensity, and an increase in the synchronized smiling behaviors displayed by participants. However, the two corpora also differ in terms of the displayed smiling behaviors: French participants display more non-synchronic smiling when humor is absent and more synchronic smiling when humor is present. Regarding the various targets of humor (Speaker, Recipient, Other person, Situation, Speaker+Recipient), while their distribution is different – it is more evenly distributed in the French data – the way in which these are mobilized in order to become humorous is quite similar.

O kafkiano elogio de Abraão

Neste artigo abordamos uma carta de Franz Kafka escrita em 1921, na qual ele apresenta a seu amigo Robert Klopstock sua interpretação do personagem bíblico Abraão. Nosso objetivo é ressaltar o humor presente nessa interpretação kafkiana como uma das marcas pouco analisadas no judeu de Praga. Para tanto apresentaremos primeiramente o Elogio de Abraão proposto por Kierkegaard em seu Temor e Tremor, afim de observar a possível influência do filósofo dinamarquês sobre as conclusões propostas pelo próprio Kafka. Na sequência serão apresentadas as três principais figuras criadas por Kafka, a do Abraão incapaz de realizar sua função, mas que permanece sempre em prontidão; a do Abraão trapaceiro, que não termina suas funções na casa para não ter que realizar o que Deus lhe pede; e a do Abraão inseguro, que ouve o chamado, mas que não acredita que este lhe diga respeito. Ressaltamos nas três figuras kafkianas a intenção primordial dele em produzir uma outra forma de elogio, uma que se adequa melhor à sua sensibilidade permeada pelo humor judaico, que aquela da serenidade cristã proposta por Kierkegaard.

The humorous language of street dissent: A discourse analysis of the graffiti of the Gezi Park protests

Owing to its critical and creative potential, humour has often been used as one of the preferred means of resistance in social and political protests. In addition, the presence of humour is also increasing in the new social movements of recent history. The essential questions that this article aims to answer are how humour functions and what its purpose is amidst a time of numerous and notable social movements. During the 2013 Gezi Park protests in Turkey, the protesters made significant use of humour that specifically targeted the control of the authorities over public life, thus providing a good case with which to study humour in social movements. One form which the protesters used to disseminate humorous messages was graffiti. In this article, the graffiti from the Gezi Park protests is examined using a critical discourse analysis model. In order to achieve the intended aims, Van Dijk’s (1995) understanding of ideological discourse analysis arguing that dominated groups may have ideologies that effectively organise the social representation needed for resistance and change, is taken as a point of departure. However, this work specifically relies on Fairclough’s (1992) three dimensional discourse analysis that covers the object (the text), the process (discursive practice) and the socio-historical conditions (social practice). Research on the language of Gezi graffiti shows that the humorous language of the protesters identified and differentiated the actors of the movement, and it did not only help them to cope with the domination and oppression to which they were subjected, but also increased support for development in the desired direction.

Build Construct of Relationship between Employees Creativity and Humor in Workplace by Factor Analysis Method

A good relationship between creativity and humor implications for the construct that can demonstrate the intrinsic psychological capacity. It has been hailed as an important phenomenon in the field of positive psychology, especially in the exploration of performance in the workplace. In addition, the relationship between creativity and humor has a positive effect and even the tendency has resulted in many positive affective experiences. Leaders and employees together to develop trust followers', hope, optimism and resilience that, in principle, can show sustainable performance and correct. This paper discusses how hypotheses are presented and tested here will advance the discussion of theoretical and empirical construct a model of the relationship between creativity and humor of employees using factor analysis Exploratoriy Factor Analysis (EFA) and Consirmatory Factor Analysis. (CFA) in the company's organization. Emphasis by connecting multiple constructions that appear in both the environment and working practices. This study marks a first step in the study of the relationship between the presence of humor and positive creativity capacity to increase the productivity of the employee's performance.

RELACIJE IZMEĐU ISPITNE ANKSIOZNOSTI I AKADEMSKOG POSTIGNUĆA

U velikoj većini današnjih društava skoro je nemoguće odrasti bez susreta sa mnogobrojnim proverama različitih personalnih atributa, poput sposobnosti, znanja, veština, pa čak i određenih karakteristika ličnosti. Gotovo da ne postoji oblast života koja ne podrazumeva barem neki oblik procene naše vrednosti, a mnoge od tih evaluacija imaju prilično ozbiljne posledice po našu budućnost. Uzimajući u obzir značajne konsekvence raznih ispitnih situacija, ne iznenađuje činjenica da su one u velikoj meri nabijene visokim stresogenim potencijalom. U okviru ovog preglednog članka prvo je dat prikaz savremenih konceptualizacija ispitne anksioznosti i opisana je struktura ovog izuzetno rasprostranjenog fenomena. Drugi deo rada posvećen je pregledu mnogobrojnih empirijskih činjenica o odnosima koji postoje između ispitne anksioznosti, s jedne strane, i uspeha u evaluativnim situacijama, s druge. Posebna pažnja posvećena je varijablama koje imaju ulogu medijatora i moderatora u ovom specifičnom i složenom stres-procesu.

Psychological Aspects of the U.S. Election Campaign

AbstractGreat diversity - racial and cultural as well as in terms of quality of life - in the United States forces versatility of electoral activities, pushing them to a certain level of generality, as specific, defined solutions may turn out too narrow for a broad electorate. In specific campaigns, psychological mechanisms become particularly important, especially those which in many ways provide a sense of closeness to the preferred candidate and build a relationship that leads to support and casting a vote in the elections. The present study focuses on three important - from a psychological point of view - issues, which are perfectly represented in the American elections - the narrative of the political image; communities created on the Internet thanks to management of specific electoral groups by politicians, and the presence of humor and satire in the campaign.

On the nature of “laughables”

In this article I explore the relationship between laugh responses and the turns which they orient to. I consider whether it is possible to identify properties of the prior turns that the recipient may be orienting to in laughing. Thus, I begin by briefly exploring the relationship between laughter and humour in interaction. But I point to some of the difficulties in identifying what it is that makes some discourse humorous, and I argue that laughter is not simply a reaction to the perception of humour. Laughter should be considered as an action in its own right, the occurrence of which may have nothing to do with the presence of humour. Consequently, I consider the notion of the “laughable” and whilst I agree that “(v)irtually any utterance or action could draw laughter, under the right (or wrong) circumstances” (Glenn 2003: 49), I argue it is often possible to identify recurrent properties of turns treated as laughables. These properties concern the design, action and the sequential position of the turns. Thus, it seems that speakers draw from a range of resources in constructing laughables. I illustrate this by exploring a collection of instances of figurative phrases followed by laugh responses from telephone calls. I argue that in responding with laughter, recipients may orient to a cluster of properties in the prior turn. However, because laughter is an action with its own sequential implications, rather than simply a response to a prior turn, whether a recipient orients to a prior candidate laughable by laughing will depend on the nature of his or her contribution to the action sequence.

Alcohol, tobacco and illicit substances in music videos: A content analysis of prevalence and genre

Content analyses examined mention of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit substances in music videos (n = 359) broadcast in 2001, as well as genre and presence of humor. Findings indicated that references to illicit substances were more prevalent than tobacco in music videos. Humor was 2.5 times as likely to appear in videos containing references to substances than those without substances.

The role of metaphors in the strategic change consultancy process: the case of Sir John Harvey-Jones

This paper conducts a detailed analysis of the metaphor exchanges between a notable strategic change consultant — Sir John Harvey-Jones and managers and owners from eight companies. The following principal themes emerge from the analysis: Metaphors can be used as a way to demonstrate the disparity between the current position of the business and how it needs to change. Traded metaphors in an interview may reveal the fundamental issues facing an organization and the need to embrace strategic thinking to address them. The exchange of metaphors appears to be at the heart of disagreements and agreements between the change consultant and the managers and owners in the firms examined. Disagreement on traded metaphors between the change consultant and the other parties to the conversations suggest that advice will not be heeded. Trading metaphors may offer a less threatening way to explore sensitive strategic and organizational change issues with managers and owners. A core metaphor can be developed to communicate and legitimize the new desired corporate direction to all stakeholders. A core metaphor can also become a beacon for the strategy implementation process. Metaphors are not just a mechanism of persuasion but are an integral part of the strategic consultancy performance. The presence of humour in traded metaphors can save face for all concerned. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.