Vol. 14 No. 2 (2026)

Published 29 June 2026

Articles

Adam North
1-22
Humour as a political communication strategy: engaging the disaffected electorate
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Adrian Hale
23-39
‘Cunk on everything’: is Philomena Cunk’s humour safe, or subversive?
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Lita Lundquist
40-56
Happiness, humour, and satire in Denmark
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Antonis Porichis
57-76
Speaking truth while telling jokes: Greek satirists’ meta-discourse and self-positioning in satirical newscasts
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Afeez K. Ayinde, Adesina B. Sunday
77-97
Joking with social realities: a pragmatic analysis of features of humour in selected Nigerian prank comedy skits
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Andani Kholinar, Millicent Akosua Bosompemaa Quarcoo
98-125
Anatomy of social media humour in Ghana: a multimodal approach
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Bageshree Bageshwar, Shahila Zafar
126-143
Pandemic parodies: exploring intertextuality in COVID-19 humorous discourse on Twitter/X
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Salomėja Bandoriūtė Leikienė
144-159
Podcasts as a medium for contemporary folklore: humour functions and gender specificity in popular Lithuanian shows
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Kadri Nazlı
160-180
Age matters? A comparative analysis of humour perception in children's and adults’ cartoons
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Emmanuelle Brigaud, Odran Guilbert, Robin Carron, Nathalie Blanc
181-195
Loving and sharing dark humour: gender or Need for Humour differences?
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Vanessa Bouchard, Andra Smith, Angela Boland
196-214
Laughter Yoga for the wellness of our students
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Arleen Ionescu, Florina Andercău
215-233
The laughter of ghosts: Holocaust humour in Cătălin Mihuleac’s novel Deborah
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Joel Jyothis Tom, Vipul Solanki
234-244
Dark humour and conflict: a study of The Dance of the Deep-Blue Scorpion by Akram Musallam
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Camil Ungureanu, Saiba Bayo
245-262
Comedy, grotesque realism, and Marxist heterodoxy in Sembene’s early cinema
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Yousef Barahmeh, Imene Medfouni, Jona Fras
263-278
Colloquial Arabic as a decolonial language: the case of linguistic hybridity in Jordanian satirical writing
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Research note

Oksana Zubach
279-287
Psycholinguistic and cross-cultural analyses of the stimulus Deutscher Humor
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Reviews

Beatriz Carbajal Carrera
288-292
Book review: Fernández L’Hoeste, Héctor and Juan Poblete (Eds.) (2024). Internet, Humor and Nation in Latin America. University of Florida Press.
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Kyriakoula Tzortzatou
293-296
Book review: Yus, Francisco (2025). Emoji Pragmatics. Palgrave Macmillan.
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Peter Kirkpatrick
297-300
Book review: Ward, Matthew (2024). Romantic Poets and the Laughter of Feeling. Oxford University Press.
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Giovanni Raffa
301-303
Book review: Parini, Ilaria (2025). Translating Playful Language in Children’s Literature: Theories and Applications. Stamen.
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Alexander Cothren
304-308
Book review: Chiaro, Delia and Debra Aarons (2026). Playing with Food: Language, Humor, and Disgust. Routledge.
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Chryssa Kouraki
309-314
Book review: Morta, Alice Ross T. (2023). Children’s Response to Humour in Translated Poetry. LOT.
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Mohammad Hadi Ahmadi
315-320
Book review: Kostopoulou, Loukia and Vasiliki Misiou (Eds.) (2024). Transmedial Perspectives on Humour and Translation: From Page to Screen to Stage. Routledge
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