Literature and humor

Nilsen, Alleen Pace; Nilsen, Don L. F.

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“…Most research on editorial cartoons highlights the idea that cartoonists use oversimplified representations of reality, often in conjunction with well-known symbols, in telling their “stories.” For example, Nilsen and Nilsen’s (2008) analysis focused on the idea that cartoonists frequently use well-known symbols as cognitive shortcuts to help tell their stories, given the short amount of time they have readers’ attention. This is consistent with research on televised political satire, which shows that satirists present oversimplified caricatures of the figures they are targeting ( Lichter et al, 2014 ).…”

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“…The research adds to a relatively small body of research on editorial cartoons. It also highlights the idea that while cartoonists may “stand on the front lines of free speech” ( The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, 2020 ), their work is both guided and bound by the zeitgeist , or spirit of the times ( Nilsen & Nilsen, 2008 ). Like satire, editorial cartoons are to some extent culture-bound, displaying varying degrees of edginess based on the subject matter, the political climate of the period and editorial preferences.…”

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Critic or cheerleader? Editorial cartoons during the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic

Baumgartner

Kassab

2022

Newspaper Research Journal

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An examination of editorial cartoons about the Coronavirus pandemic during the first 6 months finds that subjects and topics followed developments in the spread of the pandemic and public health and safety responses and mirrored those found in news coverage. More, messages generally reflected largely consensual establishment views of the crisis and official health and safety responses. Cartoonists seemed to adopt the role of cheerleader for government policy and efforts to grapple with the pandemic.

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Critic or cheerleader? Editorial cartoons during the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic

Baumgartner

Kassab

2022

Newspaper Research Journal

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“…While being a ubiquitous covert method of social and political critique, which appears in a variety of mediums such as books, satirical newspapers, political cartoons, films, and television shows (Nilsen et al, 2008;LaMarre et al, 2009;Skalicky et al, 2015;Zykun, 2016;Skalicky, 2018), satire has been neglected in terms of the attention paid to it within linguistics and pragmatics. Most conceptualizations of satire are based on the classical approach of literary criticism (Abrams, 1999;Grey et al, 2009;Burton, 2010;Condren, 2012;Maslo, 2019).…”

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Linguopragmatic Features of Persuasive Power of Satire Based on Private Eye Magazine

Yurchyshyn

2021

ESJ

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This paper focuses on investigating linguopragmatic features of persuasive power of satire in British media discourse. The material for the research includes 56 texts of randomly chosen articles from British satirical Private Eye magazine (2019-2021). Qualitative content analysis and discourse analysis were applied to distinguish linguistic, stylistic, and pragmatic means of persuasion used in the analyzed paper. Relevance theory was used to outline interpretational procedure of satire and cognitive dissonance theory was applied to explain the mechanism of satire’s power of persuasion implementation. The paper establishes that persuasive power of satire is an outcome of successfully realized critical and ludic functions of satire. Critical function of satire is realized with the help of linguopragmatic means which are capable of highlighting discrepancy between a desired and a current state of affairs, thus evoking cognitive dissonance, whereas ludic function of satire is realized by means of creating humorous effect. Linguopragmatic means of satire’s critical function implementation include echo utterances, metaphors, repetitions, hyperboles, precedent related phenomena, and adjectives with negative connotative meanings accompanied by linguistic means of negations. Ludic function of satire is realized by wordplay techniques such as homophones, onomatopoeias, rhymes, acronyms, puns, neologisms, slang, pseudonyms, and sobriquets. Interpretation of these linguopragmatic means requires more processing efforts but causes a significant increase in cognitive effects.

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“…Being a humorous genre, satire also has a citational nature, at times even more explicitly than other forms of humor, as can be seen in case of satirical impersonations (see Watters, 2011) or parodies which can be understood as “a form of satire in which a particular genre, author, or work is imitated and mocked” (Nilsen & Nilsen, 2008, p. 250). However, satire does not aim (merely) at producing a humorous outcome.…”

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Humor and satire in politics: Introducing cultural sociology to the field

Tesnohlidkova

2020

Sociology Compass

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The landscape of political humor and satire is changing rapidly, and it is becoming an increasingly relevant aspect of our culture. Although scholars have been actively trying to capture this change, majority of the existing frameworks for understanding humor and satire in politics still reduce these phenomena to mere genres or rhetoric tools. In addition, they provide insufficient accounts concerning the reception of humor and satire, and neglect to interpret and explain what they communicate. In the article, a general understanding of humor and satire outside of a political context, followed by an overview of studies discussing humor and satire in politics through their applications in social movements, as leadership tools, and through their manifestations in mass media has been presented. Lastly, a cultural sociological perspective to the field has been introduced. It has been argued that approaching humor and satire in politics through a structural hermeneutic method of the Strong Program will enable us to recognize and treat political humor and satire as autonomous and complex cultural systems which carry an internal power to move people.

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Literature and humor

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Critic or cheerleader? Editorial cartoons during the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic

Critic or cheerleader? Editorial cartoons during the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic

Linguopragmatic Features of Persuasive Power of Satire Based on Private Eye Magazine

Humor and satire in politics: Introducing cultural sociology to the field

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