媒体文本变得更幽默了吗?

Haoran Zhu, Yueqing Deng
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幽默作为一个研究课题,受到了包括语言学在内的多个学科的广泛关注。基于恩格尔塞勒&;根据Hills(2018)的幽默量表,本研究开发了一种名为幽默指数(HMI)的测量方法来量化文本的幽默程度。这一措施被用于研究118年(1900-2017)期间美国报纸和杂志幽默程度的历时变化,并使用了美国历史英语语料库(COHA)的文本。此外,研究还讨论了不同类型的词汇对两种文体幽默程度的贡献。结果显示,在调查期间,报纸和杂志的幽默程度都有明显的上升趋势。此外,贬义词和攻击性词汇在两种体裁中使用的频率都低于其他类别的词汇。本研究为幽默研究和先前研究的主张或假设(如信息娱乐和语言积极偏见)提供了理论和方法上的启示。
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Have media texts become more humorous?
As a research topic, humour has drawn much attention from multiple disciplines including linguistics. Based on Engelthaler & Hills’ (2018) humour scale, this study developed a measure named Humour Index (HMI) to quantify the degree of humour of texts. This measure was applied to examine the diachronic changes in the degree of humour of American newspapers and magazines across a time span of 118 years (1900-2017) with the use of texts from Corpus of Historical American English (COHA). Besides, the study also discussed the contributions of different types of words to the degree of humour in the two genres. The results show significant uptrends in the degree of humour of both newspapers and magazines in the examined period. Moreover, derogatory and offensive words are found to be less frequently used than other categories of words in both genres. This study provides both theoretical and methodological implications for humour studies and claims or hypotheses of previous research, such as infotainment and linguistic positivity bias.
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