Conceptual Integration addresses the dynamicity of language as an interactive and situated phenomenon. This theory accounts for the productivity of new emergent structures in language. Taking into account that jokes are a ...

Our research has arisen from the interest of aligning English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom practice to current discussions in the ambit of learning and teaching Foreign Languages (FLs). Because of the need to ...

Humour is an integral part of human behaviour. Nevertheless, its linguistic structure has not yet been fully understood. Through empirical research, this paper aims at discovering what linguistic devices make humour possible ...

This dissertation is about an Education which is made concrete through orality and gestuality of the elderly joking masters of the territory of Mato Grande/RN and proposes a reflection about the exchange between these two ...

This article develops a theoretical and discursive research about some xenophobic Costa Rican jokes about Nicaraguans. The principal aim is to discursively analyze the stereotypes, the symbolic violence and the perverse ...

This article develops a theoretical and discursive research about some xenophobic Costa Rican jokes about Nicaraguans. The principal aim is to discursively analyze the stereotypes, the symbolic violence and the perverse ...