Humour of France,

Mode of access: Internet.

With the wits : Shelburne essays, tenth series /

These essays were first published in the Nation, with the exception of the one on Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, which appeared in the Atlantic monthly. cf. Pref.

Chimney-pot papers /

"Reprinted from the Unpopular review and Century magazine."

Davul.

Mode of access: Internet.

Svenskt skämtlynne : folklifsbilder, sägner och anekdoter m. m. /

Mode of access: Internet.

Das Geschlechtleben des ukrainischen Bauernvolkes in Österreich-Ungarn. Folkloristische Erhebungen von Vołodymyr Hnatjuk. II. Teil. Vierhundert Schwänke und novellenartiger Erzählungen, die in Ostgalizien und Ungarn gesammelt worden. Mit 20 abbildungen.

Contains bibliographies.

Time.

Mode of access: Internet.

Humor em poemas: um estudo do cômico em Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Translating and Subtitling Humor Through Theory and Practice

This project assesses translating and subtitling humor in Italian and Spanish language films subtitled into English. Humor in film is problematic to translate when subtitling: visual humor may need no assistance to be delivered to a target audience, but verbal humor requires thorough analysis to be constructed effectively in the target language. To keep humor alive in target language translations, translators must understand the structure and function of humor. This project researches humor theory, translation and subtitling. It analyzes humor function through humor theory and applies this knowledge to translating audiovisual mediums. An understanding of joke structure and humor function can serve as a guide for translators to recognize, devise and evaluate equivalent translations of humor in film.

Varities of National Metonymy in Media Accounts of International Mergers and Acquisitions

International mergers and acquisitions (M&As) often invoke national identification and national cultural differences. We argue that metonymy is a central linguistic resource through which national cultural identities and differences are reproduced in media accounts of international M&As. In this paper, we focus on two revealing cases: the acquisition of American IBM Personal Computer Division (PCD) by the Chinese company Lenovo and the acquisition of American Anheuser-Busch (A-B) by the Belgian-Brazilian company InBev. First, we identify the forms, functions and frequencies of national metonymy in media accounts of these cases. We present a typology that classifies varieties of national metonymy in international M&As. Second, we demonstrate how these metonyms combine with metaphor to generate evocative imagery, engaging wit, and subversive irony. Our findings show that national metonymy contributes to the construction of emotive frames, stereotypes, ideological differences, and threats. Combinations of national metonymy with metaphor also provide powerful means to construct cultural differences. However, combinations of metonymy with wit and irony enable the play on meanings that overturns and resists national and cultural stereotypes. This is the first study to unpack the deployment of metonymy in accounts of international M&As. In doing so, it also opens up new avenues for research into international management and the analysis of tropes in management and organization.

O humor verbal e o livro didático de língua portuguesa: uma análise do aproveitamento didático do humor

Esta tese de doutorado desenvolve considerações a respeito do humor verbal e o seu aproveitamento pedagógico em livros didáticos de Língua Portuguesa. Nosso interesse foi examinar o humor verbal e os mecanismos linguísticos que o provocam, para verificar de que forma foram abordados pelos livros didáticos. Antes de proceder à análise, fizemos breve exposição das principais teorias que estudaram o humor verbal (aquele provocado pelos recursos que a língua oferece). Tratamos também da relevância da escolha das palavras para o texto de humor. Abordamos como os aspectos semânticos (polissemia, homonímia, paronímia, sinonímia, antonímia), semióticos (o papel da iconicidade lexical e da linguístico-gramatical) e pragmáticos (pressupostos, inferências, entre outros) podem contribuir para a construção do(s) sentido(s) do texto humorístico. Como os fenômenos linguísticos não ocorrem isoladamente, uma vez que só se materializam em textos, examinamos em especial os gêneros de humor; os aspectos da textualidade (em especial, a coesão e a coerência) e a relação entre a leitura e o humor (como o desenvolvimento de habilidades e competências de leitura do texto de humor podem ser aplicadas a textos de natureza não humorística). Realizamos breve retrospecto da história do livro didático no Brasil para compreender de que maneira o texto de humor foi sendo incorporado a esse material didático. Analisamos nosso córpus, procurando observar como os textos humorísticos foram abordados: em sua condição de gêneros textuais ou apenas com o propósito de exemplificar ou servir de pretexto para o ensino de algum conteúdo de cunho gramatical; se o humor verbal foi aproveitado e de que forma ocorreu essa abordagem (se a expressividade dos recursos linguísticos foi salientada). O humor verbal oferece rico material sobre a língua portuguesa e pode enriquecer as aulas de língua materna, o que vem a confirmar a relevância da presente pesquisa

The Analogical Peacock Hypothesis: The Sexual Selection of Mind-Reading and Relational Cognition in Human Communication

This integrative review presents a novel hypothesis as a basis for integrating two evolutionary viewpoints on the origins of human cognition and communication, the sexual selection of human mental capacities, and the social brain hypothesis. This new account suggests that mind-reading social skills increased reproductive success and consequently became targets for sexual selection. The hypothesis proposes that human communication has three purposes: displaying mind-reading abilities, aligning and maintaining representational parity between individuals to enable displays, and the exchange of propositional information. Intelligence, creativity, language, and humor are mental fitness indicators that signal an individual’s quality to potential mates, rivals, and allies. Five features central to the proposed display mechanism unify these indicators, the relational combination of concepts, large conceptual knowledge networks, processing speed, contextualization, and receiver knowledge. Sufficient between-mind alignment of conceptual networks allows displays based upon within-mind conceptual mappings. Creative displays communicate previously unnoticed relational connections and novel conceptual combinations demonstrating an ability to read a receiver’s mind. Displays are costly signals of mate quality with costs incurred in the developmental production of the neural apparatus required to engage in complex displays and opportunity costs incurred through time spent acquiring cultural knowledge. Displays that are fast, novel, spontaneous, contextual, topical, and relevant are hard-to-fake for lower quality individuals. Successful displays result in elevated social status and increased mating options. The review addresses literatures on costly signaling, sexual selection, mental fitness indicators, and the social brain hypothesis; drawing implications for nonverbal and verbal communication.

Laughter and Humour as Conversational Mind-Reading Displays

Laughter and humor are pervasive phenomena in conversa- tional interactions. This paper argues that they function as displays of mind-reading abilities in social interactions–as suggested by the Analogi- cal Peacock Hypothesis (APH). In this view, they are both social bonding signals and can elevate one’s social status. The relational combination of concepts in humor is addressed. However, it is in the inclusion of context and receiver knowledge, required by the APH view, that it contributes the most to existing theories. Taboo and offensive humor are addressed in terms of costly signaling, and implications for human computer inter- action and some possible routes to solutions are suggested.

Collection of Canadian periodical clippings and Peninsular Game Club of St. Catharines broadside, 1874, [1910-1950]

Items include: 13 small poems clipped from newspapers. None of the poems list authors. Most of the poems are based on life lessons. Clippings of short stories which appear to have come from a St. Catharines newspaper. The stories include anecdotes, humour and medical advice. There is no author listed on any of the stories. 2 coloured sewing machine advertisements each measuring 9 cm. x 13 cm. and 9 cm. x 14 cm. 1 broadside measuring 27 cm. x 37 cm. and posted by the Peninsular Game Club of St. Catharines. The broadside is a copy of the game laws of 1874 with a warning that breach of these laws will bring rigorous prosecution.