Taiwanese And Polish Humor
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Author | : Li-Chi Lee Chen |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2017-06-23 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1443873721 |
Is there a specifically ‘Taiwanese’ or ‘Polish’ humor? Do people from Taiwan and Poland share the same sense of humor? How is humor related to politics, religion and the LGBT community? These questions represent the starting point of investigation of this book. Some of the central issues explored here include: (1) how Taiwanese and Polish friends use various discourse strategies to construct humor; and (2) how different types of humor are employed on television variety shows to attract laughter. This book also provides an explanation of the prevalence of wúlítóu ‘nonsense’ in the Taiwanese society and how Polish ‘directness’ is reflected in humor. To understand how humor is culturally shaped and how it contributes to a talk-in-interaction, the three methodological approaches of conversation analysis, multimodal discourse analysis and interactional linguistics are adopted and combined here. This book will be of interest to both linguists and non-linguists who are interested in the social and cultural construction of humor.
Author | : Li-Chi Lee Chen |
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Release | : 2016 |
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Author | : Mark Geoffrey Young |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Pub |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 2012-10-02 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 9781479359844 |
If you've ever heard a Jewish, Italian, Libyan, Catholic, Irish, Mexican, Polish, Belgian, Norwegian, or an Essex Girl, Newfie, Mother-in-Law, or joke aimed at a minority, this book of Taiwanese jokes is for you. In this not-so-original book, The Best Ever Book of Taiwanese Jokes; Lots and Lots of Jokes Specially Repurposed for You-Know-Who, Mark Young takes a whole lot of tired, worn out jokes and makes them funny again. The Best Ever Book of Taiwanese Jokes is so unoriginal; it's original. And, if you don't burst out laughing from at least one Taiwanese joke in this book, there's something wrong with you. This book has so many Taiwanese jokes; you won't know where to start. For example: Why do Taiwanese citizens wear slip-on shoes? You need an IQ of at least 4 to tie a shoelace. *** An evil genie captured a Taiwanese citizen and her two friends and banished them to the desert for a week. The genie allowed each person to bring one thing. The first friend brought a canteen so he wouldn't die of thirst. The second friend brought an umbrella to keep the sun off. The Taiwanese citizen brought a car door, because if it got too hot she could just roll down the window! *** Did you hear about the Taiwanese citizen who wore two jackets when she painted the house? The instructions on the can said: "Put on two coats." *** Why do Taiwanese citizens laugh three times when they hear a joke? Once when it is told, once when it is explained to them, and once when they understand it. ***
Author | : Jessica Milner Davis |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2022-06-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1000591778 |
This innovative book traces the impact of tradition on modern humour across several Asian countries and their cultures. Using examples from Japan, Korea, Indonesia and Chinese cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, the contributors explore the different cultural rules for creating and sharing humour. Humour can be a powerful lubricant when correctly interpreted; mis-interpreted, it is likely to cause considerable setbacks. Over time, it has emerged and submerged in different periods and different forms in all these countries but today’s conventions still reflect traditional attitudes to and assumptions about what is appropriate in creating and using humour. Under close examination, Milner Davis and her colleagues show how forms and conventions that differ from those in the west can also be seen to possess elements in common. With examples including Mencian and other classical texts, Balinese traditional verbal humour, Korean and Taiwanese workplace humour, Japanese laughter ceremonies, performances and cartoons, as well as contemporary Chinese-language films and videos, they engage with a wide range of forms and traditions. This fascinating collection of studies will be of great interest to students and scholars of many Asian cultures, and also to those with a broader interest in humour studies. It highlights the increasing importance of understanding a wider range of cultural values in the present era of globalized communication and the importance of reliable studies of why and how cultures that are geographically related differ in their traditional uses of and assumptions about humour.
Author | : Leonor Ruiz Gurillo |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2013-07-31 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027271593 |
Irony and Humor: From pragmatics to discourse is a complete updated panorama of linguistic research on irony and humor, based on a variety of perspectives, corpora and theories. The book collects the most recent contributions from such diverse approaches as Relevance Theory, Cognitive Linguistics, General Theory of Verbal Humor, Neo-Gricean Pragmatics or Argumentation. The volume is organized in three parts referring to pragmatic perspectives, mediated discourse, and conversational interaction. This book will be highly relevant for anyone interested in pragmatics, discourse analysis as well as social sciences.
Author | : Elisabeth Vanderheiden |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 675 |
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ISBN | : 3031522885 |
Author | : Tomasz Ewertowski |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2020-10-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9004435441 |
In Images of China in Polish and Serbian Travel Writings (1720-1949), Tomasz Ewertowski examines how Polish and Serbian travelers from the 18th to the mid-20th century described China, showing various factors which influenced their representations of the Middle Kingdom.
Author | : Gloria Chao |
Publisher | : Simon Pulse |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2019-07-02 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1481499114 |
“Weepingly funny.” —The Wall Street Journal “Delightful.” —BuzzFeed “Charmed my socks off.” —David Arnold, New York Times bestselling author of Kids of Appetite and Mosquitoland Four starred reviews for this incisive, laugh-out-loud contemporary debut about a Taiwanese-American teen whose parents want her to be a doctor and marry a Taiwanese Ivy Leaguer despite her squeamishness with germs and crush on a Japanese classmate. At seventeen, Mei should be in high school, but skipping fourth grade was part of her parents’ master plan. Now a freshman at MIT, she is on track to fulfill the rest of this predetermined future: become a doctor, marry a preapproved Taiwanese Ivy Leaguer, produce a litter of babies. With everything her parents have sacrificed to make her cushy life a reality, Mei can’t bring herself to tell them the truth—that she (1) hates germs, (2) falls asleep in biology lectures, and (3) has a crush on her classmate Darren Takahashi, who is decidedly not Taiwanese. But when Mei reconnects with her brother, Xing, who is estranged from the family for dating the wrong woman, Mei starts to wonder if all the secrets are truly worth it. Can she find a way to be herself, whoever that is, before her web of lies unravels? From debut author Gloria Chao comes a hilarious, heartfelt tale of how, unlike the panda, life isn’t always so black and white.
Author | : Nicholas Platt |
Publisher | : New Acdemia+ORM |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2011-11-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0983689954 |
In this political memoir, an American diplomat offers an insightful and personal account of the beginnings of U.S. relations with China. Diplomat Nicholas Platt was an integral part of President Nixon’s historic visit to the People’s Republic of China in 1972, as well as the creation of America’s first diplomatic office there. In China Boys, Platt candidly describes his experiences and observations throughout these historic accomplishments. He also describes some of the first encounters between Americans and Chinese, including Olympic athletes, orchestra maestros, Members of Congress, airplane manufacturers, bankers, scientists, and students. Platt sheds light on the forging of the first links between the Pentagon and the People’s Liberation Army following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He also examines the diplomatic role played by nongovernmental organizations like the Asia Society. As Platt demonstrates, these diverse practical ties later evolved into today’s crucial relationship between China and America.
Author | : Xiaodong Yue |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2017-07-20 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1315412438 |
This book addresses psychological studies of humour in Chinese societies. It starts by reviewing how the concept of humour evolves in Chinese history, and how it is perceived by Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism respectively. It then compares differences in the Western and the Chinese perceptions of humor and discusses empirical studies that were conducted to examine such differences. It also discusses the cultural origin and empirical evidence of the Chinese ambivalence about humor and presents empirical findings that illustrate its existence. Having done these, it proceeds to discuss psychological studies that examine how humour is related to various demographic, dispositional variables as well as how humour is related to creativity in Chinese societies. It also discusses how humour is related to emotional expressions and mental health in Chinese society as well. It concludes with a discussion on how workplace humor is reflected and developed in Chinese contexts. Taken together, this book attempts to bring together the theoretical propositions, empirical studies, and cultural analyses of humor in Chinese societies.