Vol. 8 No. 4 (2020): Humour Across Cultures: A Contrastive Approach

Articles

• Editorial: humour in contrast across languages and cultures

  Kerry Mullan, Laurence Vincent-Durroux, Caroline David

  1-6

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• The metapragmatics of “teasing” in Taiwanese Chinese conversational humour

  Wei-Lin Melody Chang, Michael Haugh

  7-30

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• The lexical semantics of blaguer: French ways of bringing people together through persuasion, deception and laughter

  Sophia Waters

  31-47

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• De-Anglicising humour studies

  Cliff Goddard

  48-58

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• Humour expression at the crossroads of deaf and hearing cultures: the case of the Oral Deaf fitted with cochlear implants

  Laurence Vincent-Durroux

  59-81

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• Mastering second language humour: the ultimate challenge

  Laurence Vincent-Durroux, Kerry Mullan, Caroline David, Christine Béal, Cécile Poussard

  82-111

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• Children’s development of humour in everyday interactions: two case-studies in French and Brazilian Portuguese

  Alessandra Del Ré, Christelle Dodane, Aliyah Morgenstern, Alessandra Jacqueline Vieira

  112-131

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• Book review: Chakhachiro, Raymond (2018) Translating Irony Between English and Arabic, Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

  Margherita Dore

  132-136

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• Book review: Wilkie, Ian Angus (2016) Performing in Comedy: A Student’s Guide, London: Routledge.

  Eric Weitz

  137-138

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• Book review: Winter-Froemel, E. and Thaler, V. (eds.) (2018) Cultures and Traditions of Wordplay and Wordplay Research. The Dynamics of Wordplay 6. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter.

  Ibukun Filani

  139-142

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• Book review: Nilsen, Alleen Pace & Nilsen, Don L.F. (2019) The Language of Humour: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  Theodora Saltidou

  143-146

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• Book review: Gérin, Annie (2018) Devastation and Laughter: Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s–1930s). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

  Anastasiya Fiadotava

  147-150

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