The functions of punning utterances in English and Chinese: a cross-cultural perspective by Agnieszka Solska

“…Though forming a tiny fraction of the utterances produced in these languages, they tend to stand out and can be encountered in diverse communicative settings, including poetry and prose, jokes and comedy routines, advertising slogans and book titles. …”
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SUPERNATURALISM AND MYSTICISM IN WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S PLAY HAMLET by Muharrani Nurmalasari, Ruly Adha

“…He produces two types of plays, namely comedy which usually talks about love and tragedy which talks about sadness. …”
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The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) by Oscar Wilde: Conformity and Resistance in Victorian Society by Brigitte Bastiat

“…For example, the “Théâtre Antoine” in Paris produced it in October 2006 (on tour until March 2008) and a Versailles company performed it at “Le Lucernaire” in September and October 2008.When first performed, the play was considered as a light comedy and classified as entertainment for Victorian society. …”
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L’agonie de Raimundo, fils d’Unamuno, et le sentiment comique de la vie by Yves Roullière

“…In contrast, this study will attempt to show that Raimundo's traumatic and hard existence had a decisive influence on the main aspects of Unamuno's work: philosophical, mystical, poetic and fictional, particularly in his approach to tragedy and comedy, sentiment and love.…”
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Plautus’ Casina and its uses in General Education-Level Gender History by Terrance L. Lewis

“…Since Casina was based on an Athenian New Comedy play (The Lot-Castors by Diphilus), it incorporates elements of late fourth/early third century BCE Athenian ideas on gender, gender roles, and sexuality as well as Republican Roman views on these same areas from approximately a century later. …”
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Arcadia (1993) de Tom Stoppard : la passion du bilan by Nicole Boireau

“…Stoppard combines the comedy of manners form with the whodunit to build a trompe-l’œil play, based on a dual time structure, involving both literary figures from the past and present-day intellectuals, who try to work out the enigmas at the heart of the play. …”
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Politique tragique vs. politique comique ? Richard III de Shakespeare et A Game at Chess de Middleton by Clotilde Thouret

“…Thus, perhaps one could say that if Richard III is situated upstream of history, Middleton's satirical comedy is situated downstream of it.…”
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Dynamitage cocasse de l’anthropomorphisme dans quelques satires contemporaines by Laetitia Pasquet

“…The satirical prism is thus replaced by an uncanny, awkward form of comedy that no longer claims to convey a meaning and cause spectators to smile reassuringly, for spectators are no longer at the top of God’s creation. …”
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„Anwärter auf die Hölle“: Stepan Trofimowitsch und die Menippea der Pharisäer by Ruth Karin Lévai

“…Whereas Bakhtin believed that, “The Menippean forms are based on man’s inability to know and contain his fate,” the case of the Pharisees in the Gospels was a bit more complex. The serio-comedy of the Pharisees was created by the ability of the God-man to know and contain their fate. …”
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Intentional Manipulations? A Further Analysis of Selected English-Yoruba Humorous Translations by Ibukunolu Isaac Olodude

“…It concludes that humorous translations are often used by comedians who intentionally manipulate the translations of certain texts for the purpose of comedy. …”
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Freedom of Expression: what lessons should we learn from US experience? by Ronaldo Porto Macedo Junior

“…Many courts are also imposing high compensation damages that are challenging the “right to ridicule” in comedy shows and newspapers cartoons. The Brazilian public opinion in general tends to be sympathetic to more restrictive rules that may threaten freedom of expression in Brazil. …”
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Parodies de dandies : travestissement et transgression des genres au music-hall by Catherine Rovera

“…It is also poles apart from slapstick comedy and the dames and principal boys of the Drury Lane pantomimes, as it blurs the line between the genders. …”
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Espaço vivido e espaço mental: Dalton Trevisan e a dicotomia social do urbanismo curitibano by Nelson H. Vieira

“…Besides illustrating how Trevisan’s short stories tend toward the universal, due to their highly conscious dialog with the reader and in spite of its regional focus, we underscore how the contradiction between the sardonic and the affective uncovers the sentimental yet disturbing side of this Human Comedy. With allusions to his stories and haikus as “thinking images” (coined by Walter Benjamin), this reading also emphasizes the performative aspect of his work that serves to unmask the hidden hypocrisy within the urban consciences of his protagonists and those of his readers. …”
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"Magic Dirt": Transcending Great Divides in Scott McClanahan's Crapalachia by Eva-Maria Müller

“…Crapalachia is a threnody for a wounded region that complicates imagined hierarchies of center and periphery and blends the worlds of fact and fiction as well as tragedy and comedy. The semi-autobiography mines so deeply for privation that, at its close, it lays bare some of the most hopeful principles of American transcendentalism. …”
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Real Person Fanfiction and the Construction of the (Un)Ethical Fan by Lauren Balser

“…This article uses the Taskmaster fandom as a case study, as the British comedy panel show—whose presenters enact a dominant/submissive dynamic via their Taskmaster personas—blurs the boundary between fiction and reality both on and off the show, making its fannish spaces ripe with discussion of fan ethicality, the construction of (un)ethical celebrity, and fan persona. …”
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‘Woman Suffrage Precipice’: The Gender Politics of Laughter in Elizabeth Robins’s The Convert (1907) by Nathalie Saudo-Welby

“…Yet, when the play was transformed into a novel, The Convert, comedy became a central element in the representation of female suffrage. …”
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What lies beyond and within humour: A relevance-theoretic approach to propositional meanings in the sitcom Modern Family by Magdalena Wieczorek

“…The corpus is drawn from the American situation comedy Modern Family (2009-2020), created by Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd. …”
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Poetic and theatrical occasionalisms: Creation of new morphologically complex words by Joseph von Eichendorff, Johann Nepomuk Nestroy, Peter Handke and Arno Schmidt by Wolfgang U. Dressler, Barbara Tumfart, Dietmar Kunisch, Vanessa Hannesschläger

“… This contribution characterises and differentiates the poetic occasionalisms in the form of new morphologically complex words created by the early romantic German lyrical poet Joseph von Eichendorff, by the Austrian Nobel Prize winner for literature Peter Handke and by the extravagant German prosaic author Arno Schmidt and the occasionalisms created by the most famous Austrian comedy writer Johann Nepomuk Nestroy.The concept and term occasionalism has been founded by the Russian pioneer of stylistics Erik J. …”
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Film watching habits of journalism students from the perspective of the theory of utilities and satisfaction by Vujović Marija, Obradović Neven

“…The results o f the research show that watching movies is a frequent activity for journalism students, that they most often watch movies online, on a computer and/or mobile phone, that most journalism students go to the cinema with friends, and that journalism students cite entertainment and socializing with friends, partners or family as the most common reason for going to the cinema. Comedy is the most common film genre that students watch in the cinema, and the opinion o f friends and acquaintances is the most common reason for choosing a film to watch. …”
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Penggunaan Internet Dikalangan Siswa SD di Kota Ternate: Suatu Survey, Penerapan Algoritma Clustering dan Validasi DBI by Firman Tempola, Miftah Muhammad, Abdul Mubarak

“…For activities when opening YouTube there are 61.60% often watching videos on YouTube with 61.60% cardboard videos, comedy 49.80% and educational content 28.40%. As for online games, those active in playing online games are 49.41%. …”
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