The Languages of Humor

Introduction

Part I: Jokes and Joking
1. Jokes and Insults: Language and aggression (Christie Davies, University of Reading, UK)
2. How Jokes Work?: Seven Humor Theorists in Search of a Joke (Arthur Asa Berger, San Francisco State University, USA)
3. God, Jokes, Parnusseh & Tsores: Jewish Humor (Joseph Dorinson, Long Island University, USA)
4. Holocaust Jokes on American and Israeli Situational Comedies: Signalling Positions of Memory Intimacy and Distance (Jeffrey Scott Demsky, San Bernardino Valley College, USA and Liat Steir-Livny, Sapir Academic College and the Open University of Israel, Israel)
5. Intertextuality and Cultural Literacy in Contemporary Political Jokes (Villy Tsakona, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece)
6. Humor and Liminality: A Case Study of the Maltese Gahan (Mary Ann Cassar, University of Malta, Malta)
7. Multifacet Pragmatics of Russian Post-Soviet Jokes (Kravchenko Nataliia, Kiev National Linguistic University, Ukraine, & Pasternak Tetiana Anatoliivna, National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine)

Part II: Caricatures and Cartoons
8. Caricature as a Weapon in Class Struggle: Early Soviet Graphic Satire (Annie Gérin, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)
9. The Internet Political Meme: A remediation of the political cartoon (Khin-Wee Chen, University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
10. The Interplay Between Visual and Verbal Language in "Famous Last Words" Cartoons (Carla Canestrari)
11. Inside Jokes: Identifying Humorous Cartoon Captions Algorithmically (Dafna Shahaf, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, Bob Mankoff, Cartoon Editor for The New Yorker Magazine, USA & Eric Horvitz, Technical Fellow and Managing Director at Microsoft Research, USA)
12. Caricature as Desacralization of the Image: The Charlie Hebdo Case (Ayelet Lilti, Elie Wiesel Institute in Paris, France)

Part III: Slapstick and Physical Comedy
13. Slapstick Comedy: Under What Conditions Can Body Movements be Humorous? (Paul Bouissac, University of Toronto, Canada)
14. Slapstick in the American Cinema: From Circus Clowns to the First Cinema Comedians (Arie Sover, Ashkelon Academic College and the Open University, Israel)
15. Slapstick Humor in Children's Popular Literature (Evangeline E. Nwokah, Vanessa Lopez & Erin Morrison, Our Lady of the Lake University, USA)
16. Shenanigans on Stage: Cultural Re-appropriation of Classical Music through Slapstick (Terri Toles Patkin, Eastern Connecticut State University, USA)
17. Consequential Slapstick: Staging the Aristophanic Slapstick in Lysistrata (Vicky Manteli, Hellenic Open University, Greece)

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