This article recommends humour as a strategy for capturing students' attention and getting them involved in classroom learning. It notes that classroom humour is most effective when it is appropriate to the student audience, ...

In order to understand how children learn to recognize and use humour in their own cultural environment, we have chosen to study their production in two different languages and cultures. We studied a French-speaking ...

Taking the asymmetric polarisation of Brazilian contemporary context, we tried to reflect regarding aspects related to hate pointed to others, which unlike of being understood as adversaries are elevated to the condition ...

Previous research has stated a relationship between sexist ideologies and humour appreciation. However, most research has been done in North America and Europe. In the present study, we aimed to approach in an exploratory ...

Previous research has stated a relationship between sexist ideologies and humour appreciation. However, most research has been done in North America and Europe. In the present study, we aimed to approach in an exploratory ...

Thomas De Quincey (17851859) has always maintained a minor but steady following in French literary circles, due primarily to his initial reception by the Decadents in the late nineteenth century, when his work was translated, ...

The article analyses the tradition of critical cartoons in Argentina using the lens of Freud’s conception of humour. After the end of the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1983 Rudy and Daniel Paz created a new style ...