Vol. 13 No. 2 (2025)

Published 1 July 2025

Articles

Patricia Bou-Franch, Francisco Yus
1-25
Humour in times of mourning? A contrastive analysis of memes
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Orest Semotiuk, Yana Hladyr
26-40
Impartial humor in war times: global and national cartoons on Russian full-scale aggression in Ukraine
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Ievgeniia Bondarenko
41-62
Black humour in Ukrainian war memes: cognitive issues
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Jolanta Ślęzak-Gotkowska
63-85
The issue of the arms race and disarmament dialogue during the Cold War in Polish caricature as illustrated by the magazines “Szpilki” and “Karuzela”
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Jacob De Bruyn
86-110
Donald Trump’s photo op: politics or faith? Ten days the Bible featured prominently in editorial cartoons in June 2020
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Stephen Kekeghe, Oghenekaro Ilolo, Hilary Akuburunwa
111-139
Humour in the euphemisation of depravities, dread and distress in selected Nigerian comic skits of Sabinus
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Alvaro Trigo Maldonado
140-159
A comparative reading on the satirical portrayals of the colonial bourgeois through Chae Mansik’s Peace under heaven (1938) and Vũ Trọng Phụng’s Dumb luck (1936)
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Martina Wiksten
160-181
Negotiating (collective) identity, authentication and community in youth talk about comedy
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Hajar Ben Bouazza, Hicham Boughaba
182-202
The intralingual subtitling of interdialectal wordplay in the Arabic-speaking world
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Vidisha Rai, Poulami Sengupta, Atasi Mohanty
203-219
In jest we trust: unravelling the connection between humour and well-being among Indian college students
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Onyinyechi Blessing Udoumoh, Basil Okwudilichukwu Nwokolo
220-239
Workplace impoliteness as comic style in Fidelis Okoro’s Prof. Zemzi’s last rehearsal
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Prasoon Kumar
240-256
Humour in educational settings: an exploratory study
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Commentary articles

Ali Sorayyaei Azar, Ying Huang
257-269
Humour discourse in ESL classrooms: a critical literature review
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Asma Nesba
270-277
Incorporating humour-based activities in EFL textbooks: effectiveness and pedagogical values
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Reviews

Theodora Saltidou
278-282
Book review: Knox, Simone and Kai Hanno Schwind (2019). Friends: A Reading of the Sitcom. Palgrave Macmillan.
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Dick Zijp
283-286
Book review: Tomsett, Ellie (2023). Stand-up Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms: Sexism, Stereotypes and Structural Inequalities. Bloomsbury.
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Mohammad Hadi Ahmadi
287-292
Book review: Attardo, Salvatore (2024). Linguistic Theories of Humour. De Gruyter Mouton.
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Carla Canestrari
293-298
Book review: Ford, Thomas E., Władysław Chłopicki and Giselinde Kuipers (Eds.) (2024). De Gruyter Handbook of Humor Studies. De Gruyter.
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Alex Symons
299-301
Book review: Jaffe, Jerry C. (2025). Religious Satire in the Era of New Atheism: Do You ‘Seriously Believe That’ After 9/11. Routledge.
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