Lexicon and Humor: Considerations about the witty functioning of the meanings in the Dictionnaire des mots qui n’existent pas by Anderson Braga do CARMO

“…So, we explore some questions which allowed us to understand how the lexicon, presented as a comic creativity, reveals an offensive reality.…”
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Influence of soil type on bacterial growth and tolerance to experimentally added human antibiotics by Laura Rodríguez-González, Montserrat Díaz-Raviña, Beatriz Sevilla-Morán, Elena García-Campos, Juan José Villaverde, Manuel Arias-Estévez, David Fernández-Calviño, Vanesa Santás-Miguel

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Jeca Tatu, un héros brésilien. Genèse, évolution et déplacements du personnage du caipira by Teresa Cristina Duarte-Simões

“…The comic figure of the paulista pesant appeared for the first time in the scene in the Martins Pena’s Comédias, in the middle of the 19th century. …”
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Zwyczajni niezwyczajni. Codzienność superbohaterów w komiksach spod znaku Ultimate Marvel by Michał Wolski

“…Depictions of food consumption in comic books are quite numerous but they rarely stick in the minds of readers, especially when they serve as the background for the unfolding story. …”
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Усвоение студентами исторической лексики на материале фильма „Иван Васильевич меняет профессию”... by Gizela Grabińska

“…This paper focuses on the use of films, in particular the film Ivan Vasilievich Is Changing His Profession (which is known in the USA under the title Ivan the Terrible: Back to the Future), in Russian classes with students. This comic film, which was created based on Mikhail Bulgakov’s play, is rich in historical facts and lexis as well as in realia related to the epoch of Ivan the Terrible. …”
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"Nightown", "Necropolis", "Jerusalem" : les figures de la ville dans Ulysses de James Joyce by Philippe Birgy

“…Leaving aside the questions of the town-like or maze-like structure of the text itself and the hieroglyphic tracery of the flâneur's path—for these aspects have already been amply documented by Joycean scholars—it concentrates on the communal dimension that underlies Joyce's writing and on the stylistic inscription of a democracy to come that reaches beyond nationalism and citizenship (the latter being comically presented as Bloom's celestial Jerusalem). …”
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Samotny smakosz albo krótki przewodnik po komiksowych przedstawieniach konsumpcji by Michał Traczyk

“…Depictions of food consumption in comic books are quite numerous but they rarely stick in the minds of readers, especially when they serve as the background for the unfolding story. …”
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The Influence of Artistic Kitsch on the Formation of Political Memes by Anastasiia Tormakhova, Dmytro Tovmash, Ruslan Grechkosii

“…Political memes have an ideological and relaxation function, and they have a pronounced comic element. A correlation can be traced between them and kitsch, which can be the subject of interdisciplinary research.…”
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La cuestión de la limpieza de sangre y la disimulación religiosa en algunos entremeses del siglo xvii : de la burla a la sátira social by Carine Herzig

“…The authors make fun of the society of their time and of some of these most remarkable "types" (such as the mayor or the local judge, for example), by resorting to ridicule and exaggeration. Beyond their purely comic character, many of these plays offer a satire of concrete aspects of social and political life, particularly those related to blood purity and the condition of the old Christian. …”
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BERCEUSES DU CHAT BY IGOR STRAVINSKY by Răzvan METEA

“…The timbral balance achieved between the voice and the instrumental ensemble, the lyrical manner of musical expression, the specific rhythmic-melodic typologies of writing, the chromatic versus diatonic dichotomy, the affiliation of the opuses to the comic aesthetic category are characteristics of this series of four micro-art-songs, cradle songs, dedicated to and apparently describing the characteristics of a cat. …”
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Sacré Graal ! et le détournement cinématographique by Justine Breton

“…Medieval imagery is animated, shaken up or sometimes put at risk, in order to serve the numerous comical processes used in the movie. Following the same principle, medieval literary points of reference are mentioned to accompany the story and take part in the general shock of narrative and aesthetic codes inherent of Monty Python’s sense of humour.…”
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Ti-Girl Power: American Utopianism in the Queer Superhero Text by Matt Yockey

“…As a Chicano and fan of Silver Age superhero comic books himself, Henandez also realizes this ethos for himself in the very creation of this work.…”
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« But why is all this music? » : jeu du texte et guerre des sexes dans The Beggar’s Opera by Alexandra Poulain

“…The two ends offer two opposite outcomes for the war between the sexes which structures the plot: while the female taste for fixity triumphs in the original "tragic" end, the male propension for play has the final word in the Player’s comic version.…”
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CULTURE SPECIFIC ITEMS TRANSLATION STRATEGY IN ONE PIECE: ROMANCE DAWN by Andrean Susanto

“…The CSIs were listed from the comic and analyzed. The result was nine CSIs found in One Piece: Romance Dawn that refers to Japanese culture.Five CSIs were written in its original Japanese word, one CSI was translated into Indonesian word, while three CSIs were shown in pictures. …”
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Gone With the Covid – Scarlet in Quarantine: An Interview with Sarah Combs by Sarah Combs, Emmeline Gros

“…As a family Covid-19 quarantine project, Combs recently created a short film, Gone With the Covid, a spoof of the classic film, Gone With the Wind. Beyond laughter and comic relief, is parody also a conduit of critique, or are certain topics—racism, the legacy of slavery, racial inequalities in epidemics like Covid-19—too serious issues to be parodied? …”
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Les Quotas by Marie-Laure Schultze, Sujarei Tali

“…In this universe, the choice of whom you have sexual relationships with, how and at which rate doesn’t belong to you anymore.This narrative is presented in three different forms: a comic, an audio recording and a novel, three ways (graphic, audio and textual) as three attempts to thwart Kimée and Djoa’s gender and sexuality—the characters, and their universe. …”
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« Don’t Mention the War ! » : La vie culturelle à Dublin pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale by Alexandra Slaby

“…Nevertheless, a new perception of this thorny issue seems to be emerging thanks to a new musical which came out in 2004 caricaturing in a comical way an Ireland collaborating with the Nazis. …”
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“He'll rail in his rope/robe tricks” : l'injure comme feu d'artifices dans The Taming of the Shrew by Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin

“…Reading this scene in the light of Grumio's commentary and notably the words “ropetricks”, “figures“ and “disfigures”, we show that behind the artifice, behind the comic trick and farce of this scene of insult, Shakespeare presents us with a disfigured Kate, a puppet that is moved by a ventriloquist, Petruchio. …”
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Religiöse Spuren im Alltag by Matthias Werner

“… Acronyms, songs, advertisements, movies, television series, comic strips, memes or even sports news: Traces of Christian symbols, sayings, or references can be found in numerous places and contexts. …”
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