L Laineste
Biographic Data
| ID | 28190 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Laineste |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Laineste |
| SIGNATURE | LAINESTE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Estonian Literary Museum |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2033-6057 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“There’s a New Hitler in Town, and His Name Is…”: Historical Memes About the Russian War in Ukraine
Our study analyses historical motifs in memes about the Russian war in Ukraine. We identify recurrent motifs and look at the relationship between their historical references and their stance. The results show that historical memes can offer a way of legitimising contemporary events, contribute to establishing superiority over enemies, evaluate current events, and ridicule or praise the people involved. Stance needs to be considered when analysing…
National identity through the prism of satire: Humor scandals in Estonia 1991–2022
When the Transnational Rules: Humorous Reactions to the Wagner Group Rebellion in Estonia, Poland and Belarus
At the time of globalisation and digitisation, the news about important events easily and quickly cross national boundaries, and so does the humour that emerges as a reaction to the news. Memes and jokes about conflicts can be found far beyond a country or region where the conflicts occur. In the present article we investigate whether humour on the same conflict differs across different countries. We compare the humour of three countries – Belaru…
Be Like Bill: An Anatomy of an Internet Meme
The meme Be like Bill first appeared in October 2015 (in Estonia, at the beginning of 2016) and spread across many languages and platforms, especially in social media. Very soon after the first appearance of the meme in Estonia, new global or localized variants sprang up. This article presents an autoethnographic study focusing on the important moments and ways in which a meme varies during its life cycle. We employ the walk-along method to descr…
Huumor ja/kui vägivald? Folkloristlik-lingvistiline lähenemine
Huumorit on valdavalt käsitletud kui loomingulist, autonoomset ning rohujuuretasandilt võrsuvat vastuhakuviisi. Selle kaudu osutavad ühiskonna liikmed puudujääkidele ning vastuoludele igapäevaelu poliitilises ja sotsiaalses korralduses. Huumori motiive tuvastada ja mõista on keeruline, kuid olenemata selle loomis- ja levitamiskavatsusest on ilmne, et suur osa huumorist kujutab sihtmärki poliitiliselt ebakorrektselt, solvavalt või teotavalt. Rünna…
Polarised but similar: Russian and Belarusian pro- and anti-democratic humour in the public sphere
Conflict divides society by bringing out opposing opinions and social, political and cultural difference. Humour becomes a way to disseminate and comment on opinions as well as to mark divisions in the public sphere. Even though humour is ambiguous in nature, its stance (Shifman 2014) is made evident through content and/or context. In cases where the content of pro- and anti-democratic humour is similar, meta-discourse decides the stance. In this…
Laughing and unlaughing at religion-related fake news in Estonia
Contemporary contacts and interactions with religion are often mediated by mass and social media. These sources vary in their reliability and some are known for their use of humor as a communicative strategy. In this article we analyze how humorous religion-related news triggers reactions to and discussions about the intertwined issues of humor, religion, history and ethnic identity. First, we look at how people perceive religion as an institutio…
The power of memes: Personification as a marker of psychological distance in memes about the war in Ukraine
Memes offer responsive acute commentary on controversial societal matters, providing non-violent and democratic spaces of discussion for conflicts. The paper studies memes on the war in Ukraine that spread in Eastern (Russia, Estonia, Belarus) and Western Europe (Spain). We analyze who are the main actors/characters that personify the war in the memes in these countries, how these characters are represented in memes, and what are the global and l…
Humorous Reactions to Controversies in the Estonian Public Sphere: Form, Content, Mechanisms and Comments
The article investigates the humorous reactions to two important controversies that received a great deal of attention in the Estonian public sphere during the summer of the year 2023. These are the Wagner group rebellion and the scandal involving Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas. Building on theories of the public sphere and observations on how humour functions in such a context, by comparing the two cases, we tested the hypothesis that the c…
Putler kaputt: Ajaloomeemid Vene sõja kohta Ukrainas / “Putler kaput”: Historical Memes About the Russian War in Ukraine
Teesid: Uurimuses analüüsitakse ajaloomeeme Vene sõja kohta Ukrainas. Leidsime materjalis korduvad motiivid ning vaatlesime suhteid meemide ajalooalasete viidete ja hoiakute vahel. Selgus, et ajaloomeemid võivad olla vahendiks, kuidas õigustada tänapäeva sündmusi, tekitada vaenlaste suhtes üleolekut, anda hinnanguid sündmustele ning naeruvääristada või tunnustada olukorraga seostuvaid inimesi. Analüüsides meemides ajaloolisi viiteid, tuleb arvest…
The cute and the fluffy: Pets, Humour and Personalisation in Political Communication
When serious official political statements are not enough to get people’s votes, politicians often turn to attention-grabbing and emotion-triggering self-presentation. They give the public access to their “normal, everyday” lives through personalisation and use other tools of “new” politics to create a favourable image of themselves. They can also show the unexpected, backstage aspects of their lives, such as their interactions with their pets. T…
Semantic components of laughter behavior: A lexical field study of 14 translations of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
This paper builds on a novel methodology of lexical semantics exemplified on lexical field theory by using several translations of Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest . The present study, a large-scale collaboration, presents and compares the results for laugh , smile , grin, giggle , and other words for laughter behaviors across 14 languages and in extensive detail. The key results answer the question of what semantic dimensions the voca…
Heroes and Villains in Memes on the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Wars and other acute social conflicts are a fruitful ground for the emergence of heroes and villains. This is true for the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: both the news media and ordinary people have found targets for villainisation (Russian president Vladimir Putin) and heroisation (Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy) since the outbreak of war. The article discusses how the public images of the two leaders appeared in internet memes colle…
Laughter and Sex Prolong Life: Current Trends in the Humour Practices of Russian-Speakers in Estonia
We investigate the humour production, consumption and sharing of Russian-speakers in Estonia, based on the self-reflections and self-perceptions of their humour preferences and other humour-related behaviour. By studying the representation of the humour practices of this important minority community we can get a more complete picture of humour in Estonia. Analysis of survey results reveals that according to Russian-speakers, among their favourite…
Introduction: From Conceptual Debates to Practical Applications
Bringing into focus the ways of how to approach trauma instead of defining the object of research is becoming increasingly important. This also indicates that the range of approaches to trauma that informs cultural inquiry is widening, and is moving away from one singular paradigm posited as universal. Trauma scholars have demonstrated, on the one hand, the importance of particular experiences, specific cases, individual features of experiencing,…
Tänapäeva etnilised naljad eesti ja valgevene internetis
Rahvusnaljad on läbi aegade olnud populaarsed: väidetakse isegi, et need on sageduselt kolmandal kohal pärast suhte- ja poliitikateemalisi anekdoote (vt Shifman 2007: 198). Etnilist huumorit peetakse konteksti- ja kultuuritundlikuks, st teatud naljad levivad vaid teatud gruppide hulgas, samal ajal kui teised naljateemad – seks, poliitika, elukutsed – on universaalsemad ning levivad globaalselt. Christie Davies (1990) [...]
Tabust saab kommunikatsioon: Dopinguteemaline huumor kultuuride dialoogis
The Internet affects the adaption and translation of humour through faster dissemination, but also by influencing the content. This influence is especially palpable in languages that recycle – adapt and translate – texts from mostly English-language jokelore and meme pools. This article gives an overview of humorous memes created in response to taboo and concealment of two doping scandals (Lance Armstrong in 2012, and cross-country skiers in Febr…
When the Moral Mentors Lapse: A Comparative Study of Estonian and Belarusian Clergy Jokes
The religious sphere has inspired much humour, but there are not many historically and culturally contextualized comparative studies of humorous tales and jokes about the clergy. This article aims to compare Estonian and Belarusian joke lore, outline the main topics of clergy jokes, and show their interconnectedness with and dependence upon their respective political, cultural, and ideological mainstreams. We claim that the jokes highlight the in…
Naljad kirikutegelastest Eestis ja Valgevenes XIX–XXI sajandil
Küsimus Armeenia Raadiole: Mis on ühist kirikuõpetajal ja teeviidal? Armeenia Raadio vastab: Mõlemad näitavad teed, aga ise seda teed ei käi. (1980; Viikberg 1997: 119) Kuigi religiooni peetakse traditsiooniliselt tõsiseks, huumorivabaks eluvaldkonnaks (Capps 2006: 414) ning sellega naljatades võib kergesti ületada lubatud-lubamatu huumori nähtamatu piiri,(1) leidub religioonis küllaldaselt koomilist potentsiaali, mida on riskidele vaatamata – võ…
Introduction: Special Issue dedicated to Christie Davies
International Journal of Humor Research.He is best-known for his work on jokes and their targets: ethnic jokes, political jokes, lawyer jokes, religious jokes, mother-inlaw jokes; for using comparative methodology and analyzing jokes as social facts; and for viewing jokes as thermometers rather than thermostats of a societyhe argued jokes may be able to criticize a society, but they will not lead to societal change.He inspired humor studies stude…
Co-construction of metaphors in Estonian conversation
Communication styles: Between deliberate strategy and ambivalence
Janjira Sombatpoonsiri Majken Jul Sørensen: Humorous Political Stunts: Nonviolent Public Challenges to Power
The Taste of 'Estonianness: Cookbooks as Part of Nation-Building in Estonia
This paper takes a diachronic look at the culinary trends in the presentday Estonia. It sheds light on the process of nation-building enacted through recipes that refer to the social ideals, convictions, and stereotypes widely held at the time of the first Republic of Estonia (1919Estonia ( -1939)). The idealised notions of the past create a distinct atmosphere of nostalgia that can be observed in two sources discussed in this study: Maria Laidon…
Laughing across borders: Intertextuality of internet memes
Internet humour flourishes on social network sites, special humour-dedicated sites and on web pages focusing on edutainment or infotainment. Its increasing pervasiveness has to do with the positive functions that humour is nowadays believed to carry – its bonding, affiliative and generally beneficial qualities. Internet humour, like other forms of cultural communication in this medium, passes along from person to person, and may scale (quickly or…
Laughing across borders: Intertextuality of internet memes
Internet humour flourishes on social network sites, special humour-dedicated sites and on web pages focusing on edutainment or infotainment. Its increasing pervasiveness has to do with the positive functions that humour is nowadays believed to carry – its bonding, affiliative and generally beneficial qualities. Internet humour, like other forms of cultural communication in this medium, passes along from person to person, and may scale (quickly or…
Co-construction of metaphors in Estonian conversation
Communication styles: Between deliberate strategy and ambivalence
The cute and the fluffy: Pets, Humour and Personalisation in Political Communication
When serious official political statements are not enough to get people’s votes, politicians often turn to attention-grabbing and emotion-triggering self-presentation. They give the public access to their “normal, everyday” lives through personalisation and use other tools of “new” politics to create a favourable image of themselves. They can also show the unexpected, backstage aspects of their lives, such as their interactions with their pets. T…
When the Moral Mentors Lapse: A Comparative Study of Estonian and Belarusian Clergy Jokes
The religious sphere has inspired much humour, but there are not many historically and culturally contextualized comparative studies of humorous tales and jokes about the clergy. This article aims to compare Estonian and Belarusian joke lore, outline the main topics of clergy jokes, and show their interconnectedness with and dependence upon their respective political, cultural, and ideological mainstreams. We claim that the jokes highlight the in…
Globalisation and ethnic jokes: A new look on an old tradition in Belarus and Estonia
Christie Davies, the renowned humour researcher and a passionate propagator of the comparative method in studying jokes, stressed the necessity of establishing a relationship between two sets of social facts: the jokes themselves on the one hand, and the social structure or cultural traditions wherein they disseminate on the other (Davies 2002: 6). He also inspired others to examine the differences and similarities in the patterns of jokes betwee…
Targets of Estonian Ethnic Jokes Within the Theory of Ethnic Humour (Ch. Davies)
The article aims to validate the main presuppositions of the theory of ethnic humour (see first and foremost Davies 1990, but also The author will pose hypotheses which will contest Davies' conclusions on regularities in ethnic humour. Davies' conclusions are largely built on the main binary oppositions and anecdote scripts manifest in mainly British humour tradition and the analysis of their social and societal factors, though he also analyses j…
Polarised but similar: Russian and Belarusian pro- and anti-democratic humour in the public sphere
Conflict divides society by bringing out opposing opinions and social, political and cultural difference. Humour becomes a way to disseminate and comment on opinions as well as to mark divisions in the public sphere. Even though humour is ambiguous in nature, its stance (Shifman 2014) is made evident through content and/or context. In cases where the content of pro- and anti-democratic humour is similar, meta-discourse decides the stance. In this…
Rumour and Humour in #WhereIsPutin and #PutinUmer: Global Media and the Cult of Putin
The article analyses rumours about Putin's disappearance from the public eye during the ten-day period in March 2015. Parallels with earlier rumours about Russian leaders before Putin are thus revealed and differences between English and Russian sources of information are pointed at
Funny or Aggressive? Failed Humour in Internet Comments
Jokes, ethnic slurs and parodies often occur in Internet comments, as the general feeling of anonymity allows for and even favours balancing on the verge of the acceptable and the unacceptable. Thus, a humorously intended comment can be perceived as aggressive by other Internet users. This possibility is further enhanced by the fact that the electronic media in general and computer mediated communication (CMC) in particular lacks non-verbal conve…
Tegelased eesti etnilises huumoris
Uurimuses vaadeldakse eesti etnilisi anekdoote kolmel perioodil
Laughing and unlaughing at religion-related fake news in Estonia
Contemporary contacts and interactions with religion are often mediated by mass and social media. These sources vary in their reliability and some are known for their use of humor as a communicative strategy. In this article we analyze how humorous religion-related news triggers reactions to and discussions about the intertwined issues of humor, religion, history and ethnic identity. First, we look at how people perceive religion as an institutio…
The power of memes: Personification as a marker of psychological distance in memes about the war in Ukraine
Memes offer responsive acute commentary on controversial societal matters, providing non-violent and democratic spaces of discussion for conflicts. The paper studies memes on the war in Ukraine that spread in Eastern (Russia, Estonia, Belarus) and Western Europe (Spain). We analyze who are the main actors/characters that personify the war in the memes in these countries, how these characters are represented in memes, and what are the global and l…
Heroes and Villains in Memes on the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Wars and other acute social conflicts are a fruitful ground for the emergence of heroes and villains. This is true for the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: both the news media and ordinary people have found targets for villainisation (Russian president Vladimir Putin) and heroisation (Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy) since the outbreak of war. The article discusses how the public images of the two leaders appeared in internet memes colle…
The Taste of 'Estonianness: Cookbooks as Part of Nation-Building in Estonia
This paper takes a diachronic look at the culinary trends in the presentday Estonia. It sheds light on the process of nation-building enacted through recipes that refer to the social ideals, convictions, and stereotypes widely held at the time of the first Republic of Estonia (1919Estonia ( -1939)). The idealised notions of the past create a distinct atmosphere of nostalgia that can be observed in two sources discussed in this study: Maria Laidon…
Can the “Stripping of the Boss” be More Than a Joke
Püstijalakomöödia Eestis: Estraadietendustest Comedy Estoniani
Teesid: Artikkel kirjeldab nhtust, millel siiani puudub hene kokkuleppeline eestikeelne nimetus ja mida ajakirjanduses nimetatakse stand-up komdiaks vi pstijalakomdiaks. Vaatame, kuidas see meelelahutusanr sobitub Eestis oma eelkijate, peamiselt lavakomdia ja estraadietenduste, ajaloolisse
Politics of Joking: Ethnic Jokes and Their Targets in Estonia (1890s-2007)
The article will describe the transformation of cultural heritage, focusing on ethnic jokes. Starting with the jokes from the 1890s, which were collected by Estonian folklorist Matthias Johann Eisen during the country-wide folklore collection campaigns tied to the idea of national revival and ending with the most recent jokes shared on the Internet, the article will give an overview of how a political system interacts with the universal rules of …
Characters in Estonian Ethnic Humour (1890-2004)
The study provides an overview of Estonian ethnic humour over the last century , focusing on three periods: the end of the 19th century, the Soviet period, and the years following Estonia's regained independence. The changes in the choice of the targets of joke throughout the century are mapped and the cultural, social and political influences in jokes are discussed. The analysis showed a clear tendency towards greater variation in ethnic joke ta…
Researching Humor on the Internet
Collecting jokes on the Internet is becoming more and more useful, and one might say even unavoidable. The renewed nature of jokes (short, electronically distributed in addition to oral circulation, some jokes created only for electronic media (see Ellis 2001) etc) requires renewed methods for collecting and processing the data. Further than that, the Estonian Internet has some special advantages for collecting various folklore, including jokes. …
Take it With a Grain of Salt: The Kernel of Truth in Topical Jokes
Jokes are a vitally important part of everyday discourse. Joking occurs mostly in social situations, but there is an emergent source of jokes circulating on the Internet. The vast number and popular-ity of jokes proves that jokes possess roles other than those con
Researching Humor on the Internet
Collecting jokes on the Internet is becoming more and more useful, and one might say even unavoidable. The renewed nature of jokes (short, electronically distributed in addition to oral circulation, some jokes created only for electronic media (see Ellis 2001) etc) requires renewed methods for collecting and processing the data. Further than that, the Estonian Internet has some special advantages for collecting various folklore, including jokes. …
Tegelased eesti etnilises huumoris
Uurimuses vaadeldakse eesti etnilisi anekdoote kolmel perioodil
Characters in Estonian Ethnic Humour (1890-2004)
The study provides an overview of Estonian ethnic humour over the last century , focusing on three periods: the end of the 19th century, the Soviet period, and the years following Estonia's regained independence. The changes in the choice of the targets of joke throughout the century are mapped and the cultural, social and political influences in jokes are discussed. The analysis showed a clear tendency towards greater variation in ethnic joke ta…
Targets of Estonian Ethnic Jokes Within the Theory of Ethnic Humour (Ch. Davies)
The article aims to validate the main presuppositions of the theory of ethnic humour (see first and foremost Davies 1990, but also The author will pose hypotheses which will contest Davies' conclusions on regularities in ethnic humour. Davies' conclusions are largely built on the main binary oppositions and anecdote scripts manifest in mainly British humour tradition and the analysis of their social and societal factors, though he also analyses j…
Vaenunimedest eesti internetis
Teesid: Nimetamine on tegevus, mille kaudu otse öeldes, kuid ka eufemisme
Politics of Joking: Ethnic Jokes and Their Targets in Estonia (1890s-2007)
The article will describe the transformation of cultural heritage, focusing on ethnic jokes. Starting with the jokes from the 1890s, which were collected by Estonian folklorist Matthias Johann Eisen during the country-wide folklore collection campaigns tied to the idea of national revival and ending with the most recent jokes shared on the Internet, the article will give an overview of how a political system interacts with the universal rules of …
Post-socialist jokelore: Preliminary findings and further research suggestions
Humour is a cultural phenomenon situated at the juncture of societal changes, being most actively present at the spot where the sharpest transitions in value systems take place. Both universally and in the present context of the expanding European Union, it has functioned as an indicator of conflict, transformation and/or assimilation. Now is the perfect time to analyse post-socialist jokelore in Eastern and Central Europe and to compare the resu…
Püstijalakomöödia Eestis: Estraadietendustest Comedy Estoniani
Teesid: Artikkel kirjeldab nhtust, millel siiani puudub hene kokkuleppeline eestikeelne nimetus ja mida ajakirjanduses nimetatakse stand-up komdiaks vi pstijalakomdiaks. Vaatame, kuidas see meelelahutusanr sobitub Eestis oma eelkijate, peamiselt lavakomdia ja estraadietenduste, ajaloolisse
Jokes and Targets
Funny or Aggressive? Failed Humour in Internet Comments
Jokes, ethnic slurs and parodies often occur in Internet comments, as the general feeling of anonymity allows for and even favours balancing on the verge of the acceptable and the unacceptable. Thus, a humorously intended comment can be perceived as aggressive by other Internet users. This possibility is further enhanced by the fact that the electronic media in general and computer mediated communication (CMC) in particular lacks non-verbal conve…
Can the “Stripping of the Boss” be More Than a Joke
We Believe! Online Representations of the Olympic Winner as a Mythic Hero
This article 1 is a study of the doping scandal that broke out in April 2011 and concerned the esteemed Estonian sportsman and Olympic gold medal winner, Andrus Veerpalu. The current analysis is based on the material collected from the Estonian online media throughout two years, from April 2011 to March 2013, during which Andrus Veerpalu's court case was actively followed by the Estonian sports circles and laymen alike. We will analyse how the im…
Huumoripoleemikad ja uurijaeetika
The link between jokes and social reality is visible in the way that jokes adapt to different socio-political contexts by dealing with the most salient issues of such contexts. This article casts light on another facet of the relationship of jokes and their social context. Ideas about jokes are influenced by their social context, being continuously reformulated by social change or political manipulation. The case study, brought to illustrate the …
War Matters. Constructing Images of the Other (1930s to 1950s)
This volume, War Matters: Constructing Images of the Other (1930s to 1950s), describes how we understand the role of war in how the Other is depicted. However, in the following part of Introduction we would like to point out some more general questions to which authors refer in the volume and which we perceive as crucial for the analysis. Some of the authors deal with formal techniques and means of representation (for example introduced by the in…
Või Nagu Selles Anekdoodis”
SISSEJUHATUS Huumor on alati ja pea igas ühiskonnas kõrgelt hinnatud loominguvorm, milles uudsus põimub stereotüüpsusega, kergemeelsus tõsidusega, üllatav ootuspärasega ja agressiivne sõbralikuga. Inimesed kasutavad huumorit igapäevaselt — loovad, edastavad, naudivad seda publikuna. Naljad elustavad seltskondlikku vestlust. Eriti lääne kultuuriruumis peetakse huumorimeelt üheks kõige olulisemaks isikuomaduseks, mida hinnatakse sõprade, partnerite…
From Joke Tales to Demotivators. A Diachronic Look at Humorous Discourse in Folklore
Humor is a trans-genre phenomenon that functions above the established genre rules, challenging them through parody and other subversive practices. At the same time, genre rules have an influence on humorous discourse, but this often works in the negative: the rules are distorted in the process. Humor can thus be seen as counter-discourse, continuously and playfully deconstructing and reconstructing the text through adding new layers of meaning a…
Laughing across borders: Intertextuality of internet memes
Internet humour flourishes on social network sites, special humour-dedicated sites and on web pages focusing on edutainment or infotainment. Its increasing pervasiveness has to do with the positive functions that humour is nowadays believed to carry – its bonding, affiliative and generally beneficial qualities. Internet humour, like other forms of cultural communication in this medium, passes along from person to person, and may scale (quickly or…
Globalisation and ethnic jokes: A new look on an old tradition in Belarus and Estonia
Christie Davies, the renowned humour researcher and a passionate propagator of the comparative method in studying jokes, stressed the necessity of establishing a relationship between two sets of social facts: the jokes themselves on the one hand, and the social structure or cultural traditions wherein they disseminate on the other (Davies 2002: 6). He also inspired others to examine the differences and similarities in the patterns of jokes betwee…
Rumour and Humour in #WhereIsPutin and #PutinUmer: Global Media and the Cult of Putin
The article analyses rumours about Putin's disappearance from the public eye during the ten-day period in March 2015. Parallels with earlier rumours about Russian leaders before Putin are thus revealed and differences between English and Russian sources of information are pointed at
Janjira Sombatpoonsiri Majken Jul Sørensen: Humorous Political Stunts: Nonviolent Public Challenges to Power
The Taste of 'Estonianness: Cookbooks as Part of Nation-Building in Estonia
This paper takes a diachronic look at the culinary trends in the presentday Estonia. It sheds light on the process of nation-building enacted through recipes that refer to the social ideals, convictions, and stereotypes widely held at the time of the first Republic of Estonia (1919Estonia ( -1939)). The idealised notions of the past create a distinct atmosphere of nostalgia that can be observed in two sources discussed in this study: Maria Laidon…
Naljad kirikutegelastest Eestis ja Valgevenes XIX–XXI sajandil
Küsimus Armeenia Raadiole: Mis on ühist kirikuõpetajal ja teeviidal? Armeenia Raadio vastab: Mõlemad näitavad teed, aga ise seda teed ei käi. (1980; Viikberg 1997: 119) Kuigi religiooni peetakse traditsiooniliselt tõsiseks, huumorivabaks eluvaldkonnaks (Capps 2006: 414) ning sellega naljatades võib kergesti ületada lubatud-lubamatu huumori nähtamatu piiri,(1) leidub religioonis küllaldaselt koomilist potentsiaali, mida on riskidele vaatamata – võ…
Introduction: Special Issue dedicated to Christie Davies
International Journal of Humor Research.He is best-known for his work on jokes and their targets: ethnic jokes, political jokes, lawyer jokes, religious jokes, mother-inlaw jokes; for using comparative methodology and analyzing jokes as social facts; and for viewing jokes as thermometers rather than thermostats of a societyhe argued jokes may be able to criticize a society, but they will not lead to societal change.He inspired humor studies stude…
Co-construction of metaphors in Estonian conversation
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