Vol. 9 No. 2 (2021)

Published 20 July 2021
Laughter and humour in communication. Special issue edited by Sergey Troitskiy, Aleksandr Lavrentev, Alyona Ivanova, and Liisi Laineste

Editorial

Sergey Troitskiy, Aleksandr Lavrentev, Alyona Ivanova, Liisi Laineste
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Editorial: laughter and humour in communication
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Articles

Marina Borodenko, Vadim Petrovsky
7-25
The semiology of humour: developing the “counter-sign” model
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Andrei Murashko
26-35
Laughter, carnival and religion in ancient Egypt
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Dmitry Kurdybaylo, Inga Kurdybaylo
36-51
“Jonah’s gourd” and its early Byzantine interpretations
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Maksim Prikhodko
52-62
Irony and heroism: on the fragment of Origen’s treatise “Contra Celsum” 7.53-58
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Fedor Shcherbakov
63-73
When Homer ceased laughing: epic humour and the means of its apology in antique allegorism and symbolism
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Maria Semikolennykh
74-91
Basilios Bessarion on George of Trebizond’s translation of Plato’s Laws
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Sergey Troitskiy
92-111
Is parody dangerous?
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Daniil Rivin, Olga Shcherbakova
112-131
Understanding of comical texts in people with different types of attitudes towards humour: evidence from Internet memes
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Daria Vasileva
132-140
Laughter in the context of urban soundscapes
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Denis Shunenkov, Victoria Vorontsova, Alyona Ivanova
141-153
Gelotophobia, attitudes to illness and self-stigmatisation in patients with non-psychotic mental disorders and brain injuries
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Jarno Hietalahti
154-171
Laughing with machines: philosophical analysis on the preconditions of sense of humour for machines
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Reviews

Bernard Schweizer
172-173
Book review: Davis, Susan G. (2019). Dirty Jokes and Bawdy Songs: The Uncensored Life of Gershon Legman. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
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Alberto Dionigi
174-176
Book review: Scheel, Tabea & Gockel, Christine (2017). Humour at Work in Teams, Leadership, Negotiations, Learning and Health. Cham: Springer.
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Vicky Manteli
177-179
Book review: Weitz, Eric (2016). Theatre and Laughter. London: Palgrave Macmillan Education.
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Annie Gerin
180-183
Book review: Etty, John (2018). Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union. Krokodil’s Political Cartoons. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press.
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Lina Molokotos-Liederman
184-185
Book review: Lindvall, Terry (2015). God Mocks: A History of Religious Satire from the Hebrew Prophets to Stephen Colbert. New York: New York University Press.
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