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Scrutinising intertextuality in humour: Moving beyond cultural literacy and towards critical literacy by Tsakona, Villy

“…Humourists often resort to previous texts to create their jokes, thus establishing intertextual links between them. Consequently, the processing of such jokes…”
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“It Is Necessary to Try Our Best to Learn the Language”: a Greek Case Study of Internalized Racism in Antiracist Discourse by Archakis, Argiris, Tsakona, Villy

“…Greek national discourse promotes linguistic and cultural homogenization within Greek borders often through racism against migrants. Racist homogenizing…”
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This is not a political party, this is Facebook!: Political jokes and political (mis)trust in crisis-ridden Greece by Tsakona, Villy

“…The present study attempts to combine Raskin’s (1985) and Davies’ (2011) methodological approaches to political jokes to investigate Greek political jokes…”
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Majority and Immigrant Students’ Positionings towards Refugees as Represented in Media Texts by Panagaki, Nikoletta, Archakis, Argiris, Tsakona, Villy

“…The recent immigrants’ and refugees’ movements towards western nation-states undermine symbolic national boundaries. Such movements are perceived as a threat…”
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Revisiting intertextuality and humour: Fresh perspectives on a classic topic by Tsakona, Villy, Chovanec, Jan

“…In humour research, intertextuality has been extensively studied with the aim of understanding how humorous texts are constructed on the basis of previous…”
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Ten years of the European Journal of Humour Research by Chłopicki, Władysław, Brzozowska, Dorota, Tsakona, Villy, Stwora, Anna

“…This article marks the first decade of the European Journal of Humour Research. We wish to thank all our Authors and Editorial Team members – Editorial…”
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From the illegal migrant-criminal to the illegal migrant-invader: Critical analysis of the semantic change of the Greek term λαθρομετανάστης 'illegal migrant' by Stamatinis, Nikos, Archakis, Argiris, Tsakona, Villy

“…Following a critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach, the present study reports on the analysis of 49 texts from the Hellenic Parliament Proceedings, where…”
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Online Satirical News as Instances of Liquid Racism: Evidence from Greek by Villy Tsakona

“…When discussing the relationship between humour and racism, research usually concentrates on ethnic or racist jokes or on other humorous texts which expressly…”
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Parliamentary punning: Is the Opposition more humorous than the ruling party? by Tsakona, Villy

“…The present study focuses on the sociopragmatic functions of punning which appears to be the most frequent form of humour Greek politicians produce in…”
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Constructing the Hybrid Identity of the ‘Stranger’: The Case of Greek Immigrants in Canada by Tsakona, Villy, Karachaliou, Rania, Archakis, Αrgiris, Ralli, Angela

“…The aim of our study is to examine the multiple ways Greek immigrants position themselves in terms of cultural identity. Recent approaches to immigrants’…”
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From the Editors of the European Journal of Humour Research by Brzozowska, Dorota, Chłopicki, Władysław, Tsakona, Villy

“…From the Editors of the European Journal of Humour Research…”
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Editorial note on the publication of academic event reports by Brzozowska, Dorota, Chłopicki, Władysław, Tsakona, Villy

“…Editorial note on the publication of academic event reports…”
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Liquid racism in Greek online satirical news by Tsakona, Villy

“…The present study explores the infiltration of racism in humorous texts which at first sight appear to have antiracist intentions, in particular in satirical…”
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Language and image interaction in cartoons: Towards a multimodal theory of humor by Tsakona, Villy

“…In cartoons, meaning and humor are produced either via two semiotic modes, the verbal and the visual, or solely via the visual mode. Due to their condensed…”
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Intertextuality and/in political jokes by Tsakona, Villy

“…•Contemporary political jokes include complex and multiple references to diverse (con)texts.•Intertextuality enhances the exclusive function of…”
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Editorial: Confronting power with laughter by Tsakona, Villy, Popa, Diana Elena

“…This special issue includes 6 of the papers which were part of the political humour panel in Krakow one year ago. In the present introduction we will try to…”
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The humorous rewriting of Orwell’s '1984': the Greek version by Tsakona, Villy

“…This commentary piece offers some preliminary thoughts concerning the Greek memes produced since COVID-19 disease arrived at Greece at the end of February…”
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The humorous rewriting of Orwell’s '1984' by Villy Tsakona

“…This commentary piece offers some preliminary thoughts concerning the Greek memes produced since COVID-19 disease arrived at Greece at the end of February…”
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“Did you hear the crunch sound?”: Humor and metapragmatic stereotypes in the Greek Master Chef contest by Tsakona, Villy, Tsami, Vasia

“…The present study investigates the humorous representation of a Greek dialect and its speakers in a corpus of 107 memes. More specifically, we explore how an…”
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Commentary piece: The humorous rewriting of Orwell’s 1984: the Greek version by Tsakona, Villy

“…This commentary piece offers some preliminary thoughts concerning Greek memes produced since COVID-19 disease arrived at Greece at the end of February 2020…”
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