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Translating humorous literature from Vietnamese into Italian language: an empirical study of humour reception 越南语幽默文学的意译:幽默接受的实证研究
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-04-14 DOI: 10.7592/ejhr2022.10.1.615
Thu Hien Le
The empirical study presented in this article aims to determine some of the linguistic and cultural elements that can influence the production process and the reception of humour and to verify the applicability of the General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH) to humorous literary translation. 60 Vietnamese and 60 Italian participants had to read and rate the level of humorousness of excerpts taken from the Vietnamese novel Số Đỏ (Vũ Trọng Phụng, 1936) and its correspondent Italian translation (Il gioco indiscreto di Xuan, 2012). By comparing their feedback, it was possible to observe that one is more likely to appreciate humour when one is not part of the categories subject to ridicule/irony/satire; and that a direct contact with the original language and culture constitutes an important role in humour understanding and appreciating. Also, a comparison between the rating that the Italian participants assigned to the official Italian translation and an alternative version allowed us to analyze the role of Language Knowledge Resource (GTVH). According to the Italian participants, although the two versions of the translation, which share the first five levels of Knowledge Resources, were remarkably similar (as predicted by the GTVH), they were dissimilar in terms of humour and in readers' preferences. I therefore argue that, although the GTVH is a useful tool for analyzing and verifying the similarity between the source and target text, it has proved to be impractical and not always reliable if we want to use it as a parameter of the translation of literary humorous texts.
本文的实证研究旨在确定影响幽默产生过程和接受的一些语言和文化因素,并验证言语幽默一般理论在幽默文学翻译中的适用性。60名越南和60名意大利参与者必须阅读并评价越南小说scung Đỏ (vkm Trọng Phụng, 1936)及其对应的意大利语翻译(Il gioco indiscreto di Xuan, 2012)的幽默程度。通过比较他们的反馈,可以观察到,当一个人不属于被嘲笑/讽刺/讽刺的类别时,他更有可能欣赏幽默;与原语言和文化的直接接触是理解和欣赏幽默的重要因素。此外,意大利参与者对官方意大利语翻译和替代版本的评分之间的比较使我们能够分析语言知识资源(GTVH)的作用。根据意大利参与者的说法,尽管共享前五个知识资源级别的两个版本非常相似(正如GTVH所预测的那样),但它们在幽默和读者偏好方面却不同。因此,我认为,虽然GTVH是分析和验证源文本与目标文本之间相似性的有用工具,但如果我们想用它作为文学幽默文本翻译的参数,它已被证明是不切实际的,而且并不总是可靠的。
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引用次数: 0
Pun-based jokes and linguistic creativity: designing 3R-module 双关语笑话与语言创造力:3R模块的设计
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-04-14 DOI: 10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.1.622
E. Aleksandrova
The development of creativity becomes a significant issue in the era of automation and information technologies. Linguistic creativity can increase the inventiveness and resourcefulness of the representatives of philological professions. We consider humour as a tool that helps to develop personal creativity. Verbal play as a form of humour is considered as one of the ways to improve linguistic creativity. The 3L-course of linguistic creativity is aimed at developing lingual, localisation & translation, and literary creativity. The 3L-course includes 3R-module designed to improve the ability to recognise, reproduce in another language, and recreate pun-based linguistic inventions and innovations. The 3R-module tasks are based: on the similarity of activity, the similarity of the modality of the stimulus material, the number of languages, and the types of language units. The 3R-module involves the 3T-stage model (transparency, training, and testing).The 3S-test based on sense-finding, solution-finding, and scope-finding tasks revealed that the combination of 3R-module with the 3T-stage model in the scope of the 3L-course would help improve the quantity and quality of ideas and avoid stalemates when creating linguistic inventions. The 3L-course can be useful for philological students, writers, translators, journalists, copywriters, native and foreign language teachers because it helps improve personal creativity and productivity.
创造力的发展成为自动化和信息技术时代的一个重要问题。语言创造性可以提高语文专业代表的创造性和足智多谋性。我们认为幽默是一种有助于发展个人创造力的工具。言语游戏作为一种幽默形式被认为是提高语言创造力的途径之一。语言创造力3L课程旨在培养语言、本地化与翻译以及文学创造力。3L课程包括3R模块,旨在提高识别能力,用另一种语言再现,并重现基于双关语的语言发明和创新。3R模块任务基于:活动的相似性、刺激材料的模态的相似性,语言的数量和语言单元的类型。3R模块涉及3T阶段模型(透明度、培训和测试)。基于感觉发现、解决方案发现和范围发现任务的3S测试表明,在3L课程范围内,3R模块与3T阶段模型的结合将有助于提高思想的数量和质量,避免语言发明创造时的僵局。3L课程对语文学生、作家、翻译人员、记者、文案、母语和外语教师都很有用,因为它有助于提高个人创造力和生产力。
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引用次数: 2
Lexico-semantic means of pun creation in Spanish jokes about La Gomera by Caco Santacruz 卡科·圣塔克鲁斯关于戈梅拉的西班牙语笑话中双关语的词汇语义创造方法
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-04-14 DOI: 10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.1.638
L. Bobchynets
The research note deals with the analysis of lexico-semantic means used in the creation of the pun, such as homonymy, polysemy, and also morphological and syntactical means including re-grouping of syllables inside the phrase. Research material comprises puns by the Spanish author Caco Santacruz about the inhabitants of La Gomera Island. The aim of the article is to reveal lexico-semantic ways of creation of the author’s jokes based on the use of the pun. Therefore, the definition of the pun in multilingual resources has been analysed. To reveal the ambiguity, the context in which the pun is used is needed, which we define as a communicative situation of ambiguity created by the author to reach the humorous effect.Most of the analysed jokes contain a dialogue of two people who understand the meaning of the phrase in their own way, creating imaginary misunderstanding based on polysemy or homonymy. The regrouping of syllables and polysemic grammatical meaning of prepositions are among the morphological and syntactical means of pun creation. The means of making a pun used by Santacruz includes pseudo-words, based on the creation of new words on the analogy of word-formation to reach the humorous effect.Future studies of the use of the pun as a source of humour may be focused on the analysis of linguistic means of pun creation on the material of other European languages in order to reveal the common patterns of pun creation and differences, conditioned by linguistic peculiarities of the correspondent language systems. The term ‘pun context’ may be applied to further studies of ambiguity created by the author.
本研究报告分析了双关语创作中使用的词汇语义手段,如同音异义、多义词,以及包括短语内音节重新分组在内的形态和句法手段。研究材料包括西班牙作家Caco Santacruz关于拉戈梅拉岛居民的双关语。本文的目的是揭示作者在双关语使用的基础上创造笑话的词典语义方式。因此,分析了多语资源中双关语的定义。为了揭示歧义,需要使用双关语的语境,我们将其定义为作者为达到幽默效果而创造的歧义交际情境。大多数被分析的笑话都包含两个人的对话,他们以自己的方式理解短语的含义,基于多义或同音异义产生想象中的误解。介词的音节重组和多义语法意义是双关创造的形态和句法手段之一。Santacruz所使用的双关语的制作手段包括伪词,在创造新词的基础上对造句进行类比,达到幽默的效果。未来对双关语作为幽默来源的研究可能侧重于分析在其他欧洲语言材料上创造双关语的语言手段,以揭示双关语创造的共同模式和差异,并受相应语言系统的语言特点的制约。“双关语境”一词可用于进一步研究作者创造的歧义。
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引用次数: 1
role of humour in tourism discourse 幽默在旅游语篇中的作用
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-04-14 DOI: 10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.1.639
Jasna Potočnik Topler
This paper focuses on the role of humour as a persuasive tool of tourism destinations' communication and as a means of creating the destination’s image and uniqueness in tourism discourse. According to Aristotle’s appeals, humour belongs to pathos, which is - besides ethos and logos – an essential means of persuasion in successful communication. In the introductory part, the paper offers a short theoretical insight into the functions of tourism discourse and the role of humour in it, further on some examples of online promotional texts about Montenegro are analysed and discussed using discourse analysis. The results, presented in the conclusion, confirm that successful promotion can only occur through the efficient use of tourism discourse which addresses the needs of potential tourists and that humorous texts about destinations are appealing to readers. Based on the analysis, it can be established that branding of tourism destinations, products and services with elements of humour may be outstanding in positive ways, and consequently employed in promotional texts as a successful means of communication.
本文主要研究幽默作为旅游目的地传播的说服工具,以及在旅游话语中塑造目的地形象和独特性的手段所发挥的作用。根据亚里士多德的呼吁,幽默属于感伤,它是除了精神和理性之外,成功沟通的基本说服手段。在引言部分,本文对旅游语篇的功能和幽默在其中的作用进行了简短的理论洞察,并进一步对黑山在线宣传文本的一些例子进行了分析和讨论。结论中提出的结果证实,成功的推广只能通过有效利用旅游话语来解决潜在游客的需求,并且关于目的地的幽默文本对读者有吸引力。基于分析,可以确定带有幽默元素的旅游目的地、产品和服务的品牌塑造可能会以积极的方式突出,因此在促销文本中被用作成功的传播手段。
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引用次数: 0
use of humour in medical education: students’ perspective 幽默在医学教育中的运用:学生的观点
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-04-14 DOI: 10.7592/ejhr2022.10.1.637
R. Taleb, Hadi Itani, S. Itani, Rayane Salameh, Ayad G. A. Ramadan, K. Sidani
In early 20th century, Sir William Osler supported the use of humour as an efficacious tool in medical education, which continues to be used today. Despite the abundance of literature delineating this important role, it is often overlooked among medical students. A descriptive cross-sectional study was planned where a total of 295 medical students from the pre-clerkship and clerkship phases at Beirut Arab University Faculty of Medicine were included in the study. A questionnaire was distributed among the participants assessing their perception on the use of humour in medical education. Data were collected, entered, and analysed on SPSS software version 23.1. Results with p-value < 0.05 were considered statistically significant. The majority of participants agreed to the implementation of humour in medical education. They supported different forms of humour to be used, and considered mockery, sarcasm, the instructor appearing as a performer, and humour that is irrelevant to the course as inappropriate. Inappropriate humour distracts attention and disrupts the formal atmosphere. Our findings suggest that medical students’ opinions on using humour in medical education are supportive. The findings of this study might be of benefit to assist teachers in using humour to improve the attendance and interest of the students in the class and create an environment conducive to optimal student learning.
20世纪初,威廉·奥斯勒爵士支持将幽默作为医学教育的有效工具,这种方法一直沿用至今。尽管有大量的文献描述了这一重要作用,但医学生往往忽视了这一点。计划进行一项描述性横断面研究,研究对象包括贝鲁特阿拉伯大学医学院办事员前和办事员阶段的295名医科学生。向参与者分发了一份调查问卷,评估他们对在医学教育中使用幽默的看法。数据的收集、录入和分析采用SPSS 23.1版软件。p值< 0.05为差异有统计学意义。大多数与会者同意在医学教育中推行幽默。他们支持使用不同形式的幽默,并认为嘲弄,讽刺,讲师以表演者的身份出现,以及与课程无关的幽默是不合适的。不恰当的幽默会分散注意力,破坏正式的气氛。我们的研究结果表明医学生对在医学教育中使用幽默的观点是支持的。本研究的结果可能有助于教师运用幽默提高学生的出勤率和兴趣,创造一个有利于学生最佳学习的环境。
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引用次数: 2
Covidly humorous memes: coping, social cohesion and power dynamics of humour during the pandemic in Morocco 新冠病毒幽默梗:摩洛哥大流行期间幽默的应对、社会凝聚力和权力动态
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.7592/EJHR2022.10.3.688
Mohamed Mifdal
The analysis of memes posted on Moroccan Facebook pages during the first wave of Covid-19 pandemic shows that the use of humour by Moroccans is not only motivated by achieving mirth but it also vehicles critical views about issues of common concern debated in the digital public sphere. Some of these memes were used to cope with fear and uncertainty. However, most memes harboured mixed feelings about the situation and were used for social control and the expression of conflict and resistance, addressing issues of behaviour, governance and communication. This article uses a social semiotic approach to analyse the collected memes (460 from personal and communal pages) as a multimodal discourse in terms of context, culture, and media affordances. This article contends that the study of these memes can be a key to understanding how Moroccans used humour to cope with danger and radical uncertainty, build identification and strengthen social cohesion. It also highlights the polyvocality of humour in times of the pandemic and the gradual shift from inclusive, conformist and sympathetic humour to disparaging, exclusive and challenging humour as the pandemic lingered, consensus began to crack, social control was challenged and injunctive norms were replaced by survival values. The results show how these memes are indicative of the way humour changes mechanisms and functions in terms of contingent motivations © 2022, European Journal of Humour Research.All Rights Reserved.
对第一波新冠疫情期间摩洛哥Facebook页面上发布的表情包的分析显示,摩洛哥人使用幽默的动机不仅是为了获得快乐,而且还表达了对数字公共领域共同关心的问题的批评意见。其中一些表情包被用来应对恐惧和不确定性。然而,大多数表情包都是对局势的复杂感受,用于社会控制和表达冲突和抵抗,解决行为,治理和沟通问题。本文使用社会符号学方法分析收集到的模因(460个来自个人和公共页面)在语境、文化和媒体启示方面的多模态话语。本文认为,对这些模因的研究,可能是了解摩洛哥人如何利用幽默来应对危险和极端不确定性、建立认同和加强社会凝聚力的关键。它还突出了大流行时期幽默的多重性,以及随着大流行的持续,共识开始破裂,社会控制受到挑战,禁令规范被生存价值观所取代,从包容、循规蹈矩和同情的幽默逐渐转变为贬低、排他性和挑战性的幽默。研究结果显示,这些模因如何在偶然动机方面表明幽默改变机制和功能的方式©2022,European Journal of humor Research。版权所有。
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Travel-related humour and COVID-19: insights from memes 旅行相关幽默和COVID-19:来自表情包的见解
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.7592/EJHR2022.10.3.659
Anja Pabel, Maja Turnšek
This study aims to provide an overview of humorous travel-related memes shared during the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 80 Internet memes were content analysed for emergent themes. The findings reveal three major themes: playful aggression, making fun of one’s longing for travel, and making fun of new travel realities. The identified themes were linked to the existing literature to better understand the memes being studied. The analysis of memes provides a methodologically agile way to study conditions that may otherwise be overlooked, e.g., peoples’ travel-related desires and concerns while in lockdown © 2022, European Journal of Humour Research.All Rights Reserved.
本研究旨在概述COVID-19大流行期间分享的幽默旅行相关表情包。共有80个网络模因被分析为新兴主题。调查结果揭示了三个主要主题:好玩的攻击性,取笑自己对旅行的渴望,以及取笑新的旅行现实。确定的主题与现有文献相关联,以更好地理解正在研究的模因。对模因的分析提供了一种方法上灵活的方法来研究可能被忽视的情况,例如,人们在封锁期间与旅行相关的愿望和担忧©2022,欧洲幽默研究杂志。版权所有。
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Both artistic and comic 兼具艺术性和喜剧性
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2021-12-30 DOI: 10.7592/ejhr2021.9.4.576
M. Ševčík
This study examines Louis Cazamian’s considerations on the nature of humour, which were influenced by Bergson’s theory of the comic as a contrast between life and automatism and Bergson’s idea of humour as a specific type of comic linguistic transposition. In this context, the paper draws attention to the critical function of humour in Cazamian’s understanding based on his embracing of Bergson’s conception of laughter as a critique of the automation of life. However, Cazamian’s speculating diverges from Bergson’s thoughts on humour and leads to the creation of an elaborated theory. Cazamian states that humour has an artistic status and attributes characteristics to it that Bergson attributes to works of art. In contrast to Bergson, who emphasises the distinction between art and the comic, Cazamian deems humour’s critical aspect to accord with its artistic status. While humour is attributed artistic status because it suggests the multifaceted or elusive character of reality, humour’s comic character entails ridiculing the inability or unwillingness to respect that reality has a comic character.
本研究考察了路易斯·卡扎米安对幽默本质的思考,这些思考受到了柏格森的喜剧理论的影响,柏格森将幽默视为生活与自动化之间的对比,柏格森认为幽默是一种特定类型的喜剧语言换位。在这种背景下,本文在卡扎米安接受柏格森的笑观作为对生活自动化的批判的基础上,提请人们注意幽默在卡扎米安理解中的批判作用。然而,卡扎米安的推测偏离了柏格森的幽默思想,并导致了一个详尽的理论的产生。卡扎米安认为幽默具有艺术地位,并将其特征归因于柏格森将其归因于艺术作品。与柏格森强调艺术和漫画之间的区别不同,卡扎米恩认为幽默的批评方面符合其艺术地位。幽默之所以被赋予艺术地位,是因为它暗示了现实的多面性或难以捉摸的性格,而幽默的喜剧性格则意味着嘲笑人们无法或不愿尊重现实中的喜剧性格。
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Exploring teacher-initiated humour in Academic English classes 探究大学英语课堂中的教师幽默
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2021-12-30 DOI: 10.7592/ejhr2021.9.4.556
A. Kholmatov
As a subject focused on teaching grammar forms needed for academic studies and genres of academic writing, Academic English may seem tedious at times. Sometimes it is a complex subject for students who are fresh to academia and it needs a peculiar didactic approach to provide a smooth transition of students from general to academic English writing at a university level. One of these approaches may be using humour during classes. The current research explores teacher-initiated humour in Academic English classes at the Westminster International University in Tashkent and its effects on students. Besides, it seeks answers to questions as to what types of humour teachers employ during the class mostly, how often they use humour, as well as students’ and teachers’ recommendations given on how to use humour in class. This study uses both qualitative and quantitative data extraction methods in the form of an online questionnaire with students and a semi-structured interview with teachers. Obtained results show that affective and social roles of humour, its quality of lessening anxiety, creates favourable conditions for students and teacher’s connectedness, which outweighs other humour’s roles. Besides, mnemonic and engaging roles of humour received solid support by the respondents. To obtain a more positive effect, it is recommended that teachers, when incorporating humour in class, apply a systematic approach. Humour should be planned beforehand and needs to be appropriate. Moreover, it should be used with moderation.
作为一门专注于教授学术研究所需的语法形式和学术写作体裁的学科,学术英语有时看起来很乏味。有时,对于刚接触学术界的学生来说,这是一个复杂的主题,需要一种特殊的教学方法来帮助学生顺利地从普通英语写作过渡到大学水平的学术英语写作。其中一种方法可能是在课堂上幽默。目前的研究探讨了塔什干威斯敏斯特国际大学学术英语课堂上教师发起的幽默及其对学生的影响。此外,它还寻求关于教师在课堂上主要使用哪种类型的幽默,他们使用幽默的频率,以及学生和教师对如何在课堂上使用幽默的建议等问题的答案。本研究采用了定性和定量的数据提取方法,采用了学生在线问卷和教师半结构化访谈的形式。研究结果表明,幽默的情感和社会作用及其减轻焦虑的品质,为学生和教师的联系创造了有利条件,这比其他幽默的作用更重要。此外,幽默的助记作用和吸引作用也得到受访者的大力支持。为了获得更积极的效果,建议教师在课堂上引入幽默时,采用系统的方法。幽默应该事先计划好,而且要适当。此外,它应该适度使用。
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Humour-integrated language learning (HILL) in perspective, progress and prospect 幽默整合语言学习的视角、进展与展望
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2021-12-30 DOI: 10.7592/ejhr2021.9.4.557
M. Heidari-Shahreza
This research note brings readers’ attention to an extensive, ongoing research project named Humour-Integrated Language Learning (HILL). The project investigates HILL as an innovative approach to language education and humour literacy. Within the limits of this short article, HILL is initially conceptualised, and then, an outline of the project is provided. Then, I describe ongoing lines of the research, giving a snapshot of the preliminary results. Finally, future directions of the HILL project are elaborated on.
这篇研究报告将读者的注意力吸引到一个广泛的、正在进行的研究项目上,该项目名为幽默综合语言学习(HILL)。该项目调查了HILL作为一种创新的语言教育和幽默素养的方法。在这篇短文的范围内,HILL最初是概念化的,然后提供了项目的大纲。然后,我描述了正在进行的研究,并简要介绍了初步结果。最后,阐述了HILL项目的未来发展方向。
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