Vol. 13 No. 3 (2025)

Published 7 October 2025

Articles

Stanislav Govorov, Vladimir Solondaev, Alyona Ivanova
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Perception of depressive and suicide memes with different types of punchlines by persons with low or high suicide risk
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Andrew R. Olah, Conor J. O'Dea, Donald A. Saucier
20-42
“Yo mama so fat we had to run TWO studies”: appreciation of mother jokes as a function of masculine honour beliefs and joke characteristics
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Christopher T. Burris, Emily Burns, Kristina Garth
43-59
Rage beneath the machine: implicit hostility and sadistic motivation in pranking contexts
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Jesse W. C. Yip
60-75
Humour and code switching: a morphosyntactic analysis of the Cantonese stand-up comedy in Hong Kong
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Anna T. Litovkina
76-92
“The best things in life are fee.” Some aspects of punning in Anglo-American anti-proverbs
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Cássia Frankenthal Quinlan
93-111
"I have to quit comedy": the Female Trickster’s humour in trauma renegotiation
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Célia Schneebeli
112-130
Humour appreciation in the subreddit r/wheredidthesodago: testing three hypotheses
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Pratibha Rani, Sudarshan Yadav
131-158
A whimsical wisdom: exploring consumption of online political satire and its impact on political engagement of youth in India
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Moshe Machlev
159-188
“I did not actually hear George Washington say that”: the use of humour in the State of The Union Address
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George Boakye-Yiadom
189-212
Political cartoon as a tool for criticism: the case of Dr. Bawumia’s steer metaphor
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Aleksandar Takovski, Nenad Markovikj
213-234
2 Laugh or not 2 love: disparagement humour and Macedonian humour ideologies
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Longinus Avoaja
235-247
Ideological constructs through nominal choice in Nigerian stand-up comedy
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Mohammed Farghal, Saja Ymak
248-271
Subtitling humour genres and translation strategies: Egyptian movies as an example - RETRACTED
Miglė Eleonora Černikovaitė, Lina Bivainienė, Žaneta Karazijienė
272-287
Expectations vs. reality: unpacking the power of humour in Vilnius's city branding
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Riki Nasrullah, Hishamudin Isam, Arditya Prayogi, Andik Yuliyanto, Sarmini
288-307
Laughing matters: how humour affects pragmatic competence in Indonesian second language learners
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Commentary articles

Manuel R. Enverga III
308-320
“EU got that rizz": discursive contestation in comments about the European Commission’s use of memes for government communication
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Research note

Caleb Prichard, Audrey Rousse-Malpat
321-326
Responding to humor online: an exploratory L2 study on the effect of instruction
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Reviews

Benjamin Nickl
327-331
Book review: Casadei, Delia (2024). Risible: Laughter without Reason and the Reproduction of Sound. University of California Press.
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Bharat Dhiman
332-334
Book review: Morrison, J.V. (2024). Comedy in Literature and Popular Culture from Aristophanes to Saturday Night Live. Routledge.
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Pema Choedon
335-340
Book review: Thurston, Timothy (2025). Satirical Tibet: The Politics of Humour in Contemporary Tibet. University of Washington Press.
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