Introduction: Special Issue dedicated to Christie Davies
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Liisi Laineste
Liisi Laineste is a senior researcher at the Department of Folkloristics at the Estonian Literary Museum and a member of the Centre of Excellence in Estonian Studies (CEES). Chairing the research group of contemporary culture and media at the Centre for Excellence, her current research interests include the verbal and visual components of humorous cultural communication, e.g. internet folklore (memes and their cultural contexts, intertextuality, online communication styles), digital humanities, and expressing emotion online (eg humour and hate speech). She has published a number of articles on ethnic, political and internet humour and and is the editor of several humour-related volumes, most recently co-editing
The Multi-mediatized Other – The Construction of Reality in East-Central Europe 1945-1980 (with D. Demski, I. Sz Kristof, A. Kasabova and K. Baraniecka-Olszewska, L’Harmattan 2017). She has organized conferences, symposia and a summer school on humour studies.
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Sharon Lockyer
Sharon Lockyer is the founding director of the Centre for Comedy Studies Research (CCSR) and a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Communications in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Brunel University London, UK. Her research interests include critical comedy studies, identity politics and comic media representations and the sociology of popular culture. She is editor of
Reading Little Britain: Comedy Matters on Contemporary Television (I.B.Tauris 2010), co-editor ofBeyond a Joke: The Limits of Humour (Palgrave Macmillan 2005, 2009),Controversial Images: Media Representations on the Edge (Palgrave Macmillan 2013) andScreening the Undead: Vampires and Zombies in Film and Television (I.B.Tauris 2014) and has published in a range of academic journals. She is also the founding co-editor of thePalgrave Studies in Comedy book series.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- Introduction: Special Issue dedicated to Christie Davies
- Oppositions, overlaps, and ontologies: The general theory of verbal humor revisited
- Tearing up the sanity clause: A class action
- Was it you who died, or your brother?
- Between cant and Kant: Christie Davies and the (im?)possibility of seriousness in humor studies
- Early Titanic Jokes: A disaster for the theory of disaster jokes?
- Christie Davies at the Humor Summer School
- The Chinese as targets in Polish humorous discourse
- Racism in recent Greek migrant jokes
- Lessons learned about humor from J.C.H. Davies and examples in his home collection
- America’s faith in the laugh resistance – popular beliefs about political humor in the 2016 presidential elections
- Select bibliography of Christie Davies’ works
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- Introduction: Special Issue dedicated to Christie Davies
- Oppositions, overlaps, and ontologies: The general theory of verbal humor revisited
- Tearing up the sanity clause: A class action
- Was it you who died, or your brother?
- Between cant and Kant: Christie Davies and the (im?)possibility of seriousness in humor studies
- Early Titanic Jokes: A disaster for the theory of disaster jokes?
- Christie Davies at the Humor Summer School
- The Chinese as targets in Polish humorous discourse
- Racism in recent Greek migrant jokes
- Lessons learned about humor from J.C.H. Davies and examples in his home collection
- America’s faith in the laugh resistance – popular beliefs about political humor in the 2016 presidential elections
- Select bibliography of Christie Davies’ works
