Funny memes, circulating on the internet, are easily accessible media to produce laughter in
any setting, including teaching-learning setting. The laughter resulted can be crucial to …

This is an updated edition of Good Humor, Bad Taste: A Sociology of the Joke, published in
2006. Using a combination of interview materials, survey data, and historical materials, it …

This paper aims to unpack perceptions of self-mockery in present-day Chinese using an
online self-mockery viral event. The metapragmatic analysis of comments indicates that its …

The growing global interest in playfulness research calls for increasing research cross-
pollination that often necessitates instrument translation with cultural sensitivity. Taking a …

Humor holds promise as a tool to promote positive affectivity within the language classroom,
but instructor differences, not to mention the effects of cultural background, make …

In SARS Stories, Belinda Kong delves into the cultural archive of the 2003 SARS pandemic,
examining Chinese-language creative works and social practices at the epicenters of the …

Satire's critical bite exposes it more often than other forms of humor to various kinds of
restraint or control. While most studies of satire focus on its formal censorship (by editorial …

In the present study, we examined the impact of humor's positive functions on the perception
of a job's meaningfulness. We argued that liberating and stress-relieving humor act as job …

The utilization of humor in foreign language classrooms has demonstrated positive impacts
in terms of memory retention, information processing performance, and students' positive …