Vol. 11 No. 2 (2023)

Published 30 June 2023

Articles

Jacob De Bruyn
1-19
Contemporary political satirists: unlikely prophets?
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Galia Hirsch, Pnina Shukrun-Nagar
20-36
Flirting with the Israeli Prime Minister, humorously
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Orest Semotiuk
37-48
Laughing at political opponents: Poroshenko’s vs. Zelensky’s supporters in memes
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Desislava Cheshmedzhieva-Stoycheva
49-67
“The General Said”: challenges in understanding Covid-19 memes
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Mihaela Viorica Constantinescu
68-87
Identity investment in stand-up comedy and online sketches
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Simon Wanjala Nganga
88-105
Creative uses of language to invoke sex-related taboos in Churchill Raw comedy shows
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João Pedro Rosa Ferreira
106-120
What did the Portuguese laugh at 200 years ago?
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Kateryna Pilyarchuk
121-141
Humor and allusions on screen: looking into translation strategies of The Simpsons
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Catalina Iliescu-Gheorghiu
142-158
Translating humour in children’s theatre for (unintended) diasporic audiences: Ion Creangă on Spanish stages
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Hanan Al-Jabri, Ghadeer Alhasan, Sukayna Ali
159-177
Subtitling Arabic humour into English: the case of Arabic stand-up comedies on Netflix
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Reviews

Jessica Milner Davis
178-180
Book review: M.W. Shores (2021). The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan: Satire and Social Mobility in Kamigata Rakugo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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Bartholomew Chizoba Akpah
181-184
Book review: Chukwuma, Ignatius (ed). (2022). Sexual Humour in Africa. London: Routledge.
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Kristina Stankevičiūtė
185-190
Book review: Milbrodt, Teresa (2022). Sexy Like Us: Disability, Humour, and Sexuality. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
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Iveta Žákovská
191-194
Book review: Straßburger, Lena (2022). Humour and Horror: Different Emotions, Similar Linguistic Processing Strategies. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
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Loukia Kostopoulou
195-197
Book review: Dore, Margherita (2022). Humour in Self-Translation. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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Theodora Saltidou
198-201
Book review: Bonello, Krista, Giappone, Rutter, Francis, Fred & Mackenzie, Iain (eds.). (2018). Comedy and Critical Thought: Laughter as Resistance. London/New York: Rowman & Littlefield International.
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Salomi Boukala
202-204
Book review: Webber, Julie A. (ed.) (2019). The Joke Is on Us: Political Comedy in (Late) Neoliberal Times. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
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Natàlia Server Benetó
205-208
Book review: London, John & Gabriel Sansano (2022). Acting Funny on the Catalan Stage. El teatre còmic en català (1900-2016). Oxford: Peter Lang.
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