Toxic Communication on TikTok: Sigma Masculinities and Gendered Disinformation by Samuel Tanner, François Gillardin

“…Our findings reveal that sigma toxic communication manifests in a spectrum ranging from subtle humor to explicit violence. This diversity of content functions as a “ready-to-think” framework, potentially appealing to a wide range of men across varying tastes, ages, and attitudes toward gender while perpetuating narratives that reflect and reinforce entrenched patterns of male dominance.…”
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Banana Populism: Exploring the Emotionally Engaging, Authentic, and Memeable Rhetoric of Populist Visual Communication by Zea Szebeni, Ilana Hartikainen, Sophie Schmalenberger, Michael Cole

“…Banana populism utilizes the ordinary—exemplified by the banana—for its ubiquity, inherent humor, and absurdity, transforming these elements into powerful political tools. …”
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“A Marginália como imagem transgressiva: ligações entre a página medieval e o graffiti contemporáneo” by Rita Costa Carvalho

“…Nestes fenómenos, a paródia e o humor desempenham um papel relevante.No entanto, a transgressividade da marginália surge como ambígua, facto decorrente da indefinição própria da imagem e da margem onde se inscreve.…”
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Vision Influence on Whole-Body Human Vibration Comfort Levels by Maria Lúcia Machado Duarte, Matheus de Brito Pereira

“…Among them, one can mention the influence of gender, age, corporeal mass index (CMI), temperature, humor, anxiety, hearing, posture, vision, etc. The first three parameters mentioned were already investigated in previous studies undertaken by GRAVI (Group of Acoustics and Vibration) researchers. …”
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Parallel Universes? Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For (1983-2008) and Diane DiMassa’s Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist (1991-1996) by Hélène Tison

“…For all their provocation and humor, these comics from the margins have remained eerily topical.…”
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Facile nucleophilic substitution approach for the spectrofluorimetric assay of natamycin based on diarylpyrrolone formation, evaluation of method greenness by Sayed M. Derayea, Fatma F. Mohammed

“…The method was applied for the determination of the cited drug in pharmaceutical eye drops and artificial aqueous humor with high percentage recoveries and low relative standard deviations. …”
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THE PHENOMENON OF LANGUAGE GAMES AS COLLEGE STUDENTS RESPONSES TO THE REVISED CRIMINAL CODE DRAFT 2019: A SOCIOLINGUISTICS STUDY by Nurul Nisfu Syahriy, Ridwan Hanafiah, Rudy Sofyan

“…The language game mentioned was created with various objectives such as criticizing related policies, making fun of the related performance and just creating humor. …”
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Leilah Assumpção, os muros e o dia branco by Fernanda Ribeiro Queiroz de Oliveira

“…Este artículo analiza la obra de Leilah Assumpção, mostrando cómo, usando un tratamiento irónico e inesperadamente lleno de humor en situaciones de alta tensión, la autora trabaja la saga de seres humanos encontrándose a sí mismos dentro del mundo.…”
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Taming the Beast: Bullying and Censorship in Interlingual Subtitling by Hussein Abu-Rayyash, Said M. Shiyab

“…Five principal categories of verbal bullying are identified: threats, insults, taunts, rumors, and deflection through humor. Subtitlers mitigate these themes using adaptive strategies such as neutralization, substitution, and stylistic amplification. …”
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Pílulas, posts e piadas: a brevidade como éthos da poesia brasileira by Sergio Guilherme Cabral Bento

“…Esta concisión poemática, generalmente asociada al humor, ganaría, en el Modernismo, epítetos como “chiste”, “píldora”, “comprimido” y “minuto”, y gracias a su vasta proliferación, se volvió-no sin polémicas y detrataciones - una especie de género recurrente en la producción poética nacional. …”
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Komischer Diskurs: kognitiv und kulturbedingt by Oksana Zubach

“…A significant subject in the broad field of discourse was and still is the area of the comic (humor, jokes, satire). The article accepts relevant criteria (sociological, psycholinguistic, communicative, pragmatic, gender-sensitive, etc.) that reflect the expression of humorous elements in the German language and culture. …”
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Didacticism and Philosophical Tenets in Ọbasa’s Poetry by Arinpe Adejumo

“…It is also revealed that satirical elements, especially humor are used to project Yoruba philosophical belief in order to imbue the reader with moral rectitude. …”
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Slang in animated cartoons: Translation peculiarities by Kateryna Bondarenko

“…Excerpts from original cartoons scripts show slang use, that may function both for the protagonists’ characterisation and for the mapping of humor (carnivalesque) world picture. Componential analysis of meaning – breaking down the sense of slang terms into their minimal distinctive features – was used to determine the meaning of lexemes and reconstruct semantic domains actively verbalised by slang. …”
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Mocking Andromeda in Julia Constance Fletcher’s The Fantasticks (1900) by Rebecca Nesvet

“…However, when read alongside Fletcher’s earlier published writings, it appears to apply risky humor to decidedly feminist ends. Specifically, The Fantasticks deploys a comic situation to mock what Fletcher elsewhere in her corpus identifies as the Andromeda myth: the pervasive cultural narrative wherein a woman seems to need a man to rescue her and is expected to marry her rescuer.…”
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THE ROLE OF GENDER IN THE USE OF LANGUAGE IN ONLINE INTERACTIONS: KURDISH INTERLOCUTORS AS NON-NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS by Bikhtiyar Fattah

“…The most two significant concluding points that this study has come up with are: (1) gender diversity affects all the aspects of language including word choice, strategy and style in online interactions, and (2) the frequency of using hedge devices, empty adjectives, euphemistic expressions, apologies, justifications, minimal responses, emoticons, tag-questions, rhetorical questions, intensifiers and exclamatory expressions used by females is far more compared to males. However, males use humor and sarcastic expressions far more compared to females. …”
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Léon Cordes écrivain et paysan. L’expérience du Paysan du Midi (fin des années 1940 - début des années 1950) : un billet d’humeur en occitan dans la presse agricole en français... by Philippe Gardy

“…In 1952, under a pseudonym, he published a weekly humor column in Occitan, Sul pic de Miegjorn (Sur le coup de Midi), in Le Paysan du Midi, in which he commented on current events in vineyards, wine and much more, in a serious tone that was nonetheless full of critical verve. …”
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Uma abordagem sobre a depressão no idoso e a influência do exercício físico by Lílian Éster Franke Moro, Luciane Hitomi Tokunaga, Alberto Saturno Madureira

“…O exercício físico demonstrou efeitos positivos na melhora do humor, regulação de neurotransmissores e aumento da autoestima, sendo recomendado como estratégia complementar na prevenção e tratamento da depressão. …”
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Specificity of overcoming behavior within relationship to tolerance to uncertainty of convicted men by A. A. Shylina, O. M. Skliarov

“…The growth of intolerance of convicts who serve the punishment not for the first term, leads to the propensity to overcome the problem through intellectual methods of rationalization, switching attention, removal, humor, depreciation.…”
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Humour in the management of multiple sclerosis: a scoping review by M. Šeduikienė, V. Matonis

“…Executive function and personalized long-term prognosis for PwMS are to some extent related to humor. Group analyses revealed lower scores in RRMS patients on humoristic visual tasks compared to scores on verbal tasks, and PwMS had impaired comprehension of figurative and humorous items compared to their comprehension of the literal items of simple medical responses. …”
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What if writing rock history was also writing with “ifs”? Or how Lester Bangs liked playing a trick on his reader’s perception of time by Maud Berthomier

“…Bangs never ceased to raise this question with a lot of humor in his texts. And in the end, no matter how unbelievable that history of rock may have been sometimes, Bangs always was a cultural gatekeeper, a keeper of the flame. …”
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