Władysław Chłopicki
Biographic Data
| ID | 324350 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Władysław Chłopicki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Władysław |
| FAMILY NAME | Chłopicki |
| SIGNATURE | CHŁOPICKI W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jagiellonian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4675-4102 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Stereotypical Poles and Their Funny Beaver (Bober)
The aim of the paper is to analyse the viral presence of the beaver in the contemporary Polish digital sphere to identify the features of a specific text that make it popular, recognized, and spread in certain cultural circles. Our focus is to specify the factors creating its humorous potential and highlight its role in creating and maintaining stereotypes. The material we use as an example is the short video that had apparently not been intended…
From Venus de Milo to Nike ads: The role of art references in the production of Covid-19 humour in Central and Eastern Europe
This study examines the role of art references in the production of humour in COVID-19 Internet memes in Central and Eastern Europe. Taking a broad understanding of art (including fine art and popular culture references), we examine how humorous references to local, regional, glocal, and global art bring together and negotiate between different contexts: the verbal and the visual; the political and the cultural; the ‘old’ (pre-pandemic) and the ‘…
Art in digital humour: Interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches—introduction to the special issue
This introduction reveals the methodological and theoretical tenets underpinning the research presented in this special issue, and provides an overview of the main findings. An interdisciplinary group of scholars attempted a multifaceted study of art in digital humour, instantiated in (but not restricted to) internet memes pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic theme. The contributions deal with a wide array of aspects involved in the recontextualiz…
Past and present clashes as a source of humor
This paper aims to illustrate the semiotic and pragmatic basis of the humorous opposition between past and present scripts, which underlie many examples of multimodal humor. Highly popular among Polish viewers, the Netflix series 1670 (produced in 2023) is taken under scrutiny as a good illustration of the possibilities that the historical mockumentary as a broadly conceived genre offers to comment on contemporary global conflicts, especially bet…
The Belarus-Poland migrant crisis: Views From Both Sides of the Wall
The migrant crisis on the Polish-Belarusian and Lithuanian-Belarusian borders has resulted in border crossing restrictions and the construction of walls separating Poland and Lithuania from Belarus. It has also provoked humorous reactions in online media. We discuss the targets of these humorous reactions and illustrate how humour highlights the gap between Belarusian and Polish authorities’ activities/claims and reality. We analyse conservative …
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…
Elliott Oring: The consolations of humor and other folklore essays
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…
Group boundaries in humor in the online public sphere
One of the fundamental functions of humor is establishing the boundaries between groups. While it is very easy to trace this function in private settings, it often becomes more challenging in the online public sphere, where different groups of humor audiences overlap; there, using audience-restricting references can be counterproductive by establishing boundaries and preventing the efficient spread of jokes. Using the database on humor and confli…
The drama of dialogue action in distinct discourse spaces: Conservative and liberal humour in television talk shows
The article addresses the issue of intracultural dialogue between two strong political mindsets, liberal and conservative. This polarization is typical of contemporary cultural divides and emerges in the public sphere through mass media, often finding its outlet through humour, which may be treated as a mediating factor. It will be discussed on the example of a popular Polish humorous talk show broadcast on the public TV channel as compared to on…
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…
Villy Tsakona: Recontextualizing humor. Rethinking the analysis and teaching of humor
Interventions of Speakers of Polish and British Parliaments in the light of politeness theory
The present study attempts to analyze the interventions of Speakers of Polish and British Parliaments in the selected exchanges from 2018 to 2019 in terms of discourse-sensitive politeness theory advanced by Jonathan Culpeper. He proposes to use three types of impoliteness that affect three types of interlocutors’ faces via a range of impoliteness strategies. In the analyses we consider the linguistic, personal, and cultural as well as political …
Poola intertekstuaalsed meemid Covid pandeemia kohta
The aim of the paper is to show the Polish story of the Covid-19 pandemic as seen through a humorous looking glass. Different stages of coronavirus presence in the media and social discourse have been accompanied by the appearance and development of jokes and memes, which illustrate the rapidly changing pandemic situation. The database consists of over three hundred memes, movies, and comments collected between February and May 2020, during the p…
Sophisticated humor against Covid-19: The Polish case
The analysis undertaken in the article focuses on a group of memes selected from the database which drew on culture-specific references. Specifically, they embrace the memories of socialist times and call on references to comic films and easily recognized characters in order to bring out the re-discovered absurdity of the current COVID-19 situation. This material seems ideal to revisit Raskin’s early notion of sophistication, which was broadly ar…
The Chinese as targets in Polish humorous discourse
The paper discusses contemporary Polish humor which features references to Chinese language and culture. Together with the ideological, political, financial and economic visibility of China, its presence in Polish humorous discourse is on the rise. Jokes, cabaret sketches and visual materials, such as memes, more and more frequently use the Chinese as targets for entertaining the audience. The article will analyze the instances of Polish humorous…
What do doctors advise patients in jokes and why
Doctor jokes are one of the most popular kind of jokes because they deal with the very sensitive subject of human state of health which draws upon the very basic life-death dichotomy, listed by Raskin in his influential study (Raskin, Victor. 1985. Semantic mechanisms of humor . Dordrecht: Reidel.) among the dichotomies most common in jokes. At the same time, doctor jokes are culture-specific as they reflect the relations between doctors and pati…
Declarative questions in Polish student conversations
Co-construction of metaphors in Estonian conversation
Communication styles: Between deliberate strategy and ambivalence
Translation of Menus: Labour of Sisyphos, Squaring the Circle or Marrying Water and Fire
As a regular customer of restaurants both in my native Poland and in other countries (particularly in the United States), I have always wondered why restaurant menus are so difficult to comprehend for a cultural outsider. In fact, this tendency is systematic and has to do with what Venuti (1995) has described as a necessary foreignization of texts in translation and what other translation scholars have referred to as inherent untranslatability of…
Polish highlander jokes and their targets
The aim of the paper is to show the characteristic features of jokes about Polish highlanders and analyse them to identify the comic script of a highlander. This group of jokes is treated as a good illustration of Christie Davies’s ethnic jokes theory concerning witty versus stupid and centre versus periphery oppositions, as well as mind over matter in general. A particular type of reasoning and the use of regional dialect are distinctive feature…
Salvatore Attardo: Encyclopedia of Humor Studies
Ebavõrdne võitlus stand-upi ja kabareetraditsiooni vahel Poolas
ttasid Poola linnades 20. sajandi alguses
The assessment of the fear of being laughed at in Poland: Translation and first evaluation of the Polish Geloph
The assessment of the fear of being laughed at in Poland: Translation and first evaluation of the Polish GELOPH The main aim of the paper was to translate and, for the first time, evaluate the Polish GELOPH . This is a 15-item questionnaire for the subjective assessment of gelotophobia, the fear of being laughed at. Gelotophobia is seen as an individual differences phenomenon at a sub-clinical level. The psychometric properties of the Polish vers…
Breaking ground in cross-cultural research on the fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia): A multi-national study involving 73 countries
The current study examines whether the fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia) can be assessed reliably and validly by means of a self-report instrument in different countries of the world. All items of the GELOPH (Ruch and Titze, GELOPH〈46〉, University of Düsseldorf, 1998; Ruch and Proyer, Swiss Journal of Psychology 67:19–27, 2008b) were translated to the local language of the collaborator (42 languages in total). In total, 22,610 participants …
Sophisticated humor against Covid-19: The Polish case
The analysis undertaken in the article focuses on a group of memes selected from the database which drew on culture-specific references. Specifically, they embrace the memories of socialist times and call on references to comic films and easily recognized characters in order to bring out the re-discovered absurdity of the current COVID-19 situation. This material seems ideal to revisit Raskin’s early notion of sophistication, which was broadly ar…
Linguistic theories of humor
Co-construction of metaphors in Estonian conversation
Communication styles: Between deliberate strategy and ambivalence
Declarative questions in Polish student conversations
The Linguistic Analysis of Jokes
Group boundaries in humor in the online public sphere
One of the fundamental functions of humor is establishing the boundaries between groups. While it is very easy to trace this function in private settings, it often becomes more challenging in the online public sphere, where different groups of humor audiences overlap; there, using audience-restricting references can be counterproductive by establishing boundaries and preventing the efficient spread of jokes. Using the database on humor and confli…
The Chinese as targets in Polish humorous discourse
The paper discusses contemporary Polish humor which features references to Chinese language and culture. Together with the ideological, political, financial and economic visibility of China, its presence in Polish humorous discourse is on the rise. Jokes, cabaret sketches and visual materials, such as memes, more and more frequently use the Chinese as targets for entertaining the audience. The article will analyze the instances of Polish humorous…
Conversational joking: Humor in everyday talk
Linguistic theories of humor
The Linguistic Analysis of Jokes
Breaking ground in cross-cultural research on the fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia): A multi-national study involving 73 countries
The current study examines whether the fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia) can be assessed reliably and validly by means of a self-report instrument in different countries of the world. All items of the GELOPH (Ruch and Titze, GELOPH〈46〉, University of Düsseldorf, 1998; Ruch and Proyer, Swiss Journal of Psychology 67:19–27, 2008b) were translated to the local language of the collaborator (42 languages in total). In total, 22,610 participants …
The assessment of the fear of being laughed at in Poland: Translation and first evaluation of the Polish Geloph
The assessment of the fear of being laughed at in Poland: Translation and first evaluation of the Polish GELOPH The main aim of the paper was to translate and, for the first time, evaluate the Polish GELOPH . This is a 15-item questionnaire for the subjective assessment of gelotophobia, the fear of being laughed at. Gelotophobia is seen as an individual differences phenomenon at a sub-clinical level. The psychometric properties of the Polish vers…
Ebavõrdne võitlus stand-upi ja kabareetraditsiooni vahel Poolas
ttasid Poola linnades 20. sajandi alguses
Salvatore Attardo: Encyclopedia of Humor Studies
Polish highlander jokes and their targets
The aim of the paper is to show the characteristic features of jokes about Polish highlanders and analyse them to identify the comic script of a highlander. This group of jokes is treated as a good illustration of Christie Davies’s ethnic jokes theory concerning witty versus stupid and centre versus periphery oppositions, as well as mind over matter in general. A particular type of reasoning and the use of regional dialect are distinctive feature…
Translation of Menus: Labour of Sisyphos, Squaring the Circle or Marrying Water and Fire
As a regular customer of restaurants both in my native Poland and in other countries (particularly in the United States), I have always wondered why restaurant menus are so difficult to comprehend for a cultural outsider. In fact, this tendency is systematic and has to do with what Venuti (1995) has described as a necessary foreignization of texts in translation and what other translation scholars have referred to as inherent untranslatability of…
The Chinese as targets in Polish humorous discourse
The paper discusses contemporary Polish humor which features references to Chinese language and culture. Together with the ideological, political, financial and economic visibility of China, its presence in Polish humorous discourse is on the rise. Jokes, cabaret sketches and visual materials, such as memes, more and more frequently use the Chinese as targets for entertaining the audience. The article will analyze the instances of Polish humorous…
What do doctors advise patients in jokes and why
Doctor jokes are one of the most popular kind of jokes because they deal with the very sensitive subject of human state of health which draws upon the very basic life-death dichotomy, listed by Raskin in his influential study (Raskin, Victor. 1985. Semantic mechanisms of humor . Dordrecht: Reidel.) among the dichotomies most common in jokes. At the same time, doctor jokes are culture-specific as they reflect the relations between doctors and pati…
Declarative questions in Polish student conversations
Co-construction of metaphors in Estonian conversation
Communication styles: Between deliberate strategy and ambivalence
Interventions of Speakers of Polish and British Parliaments in the light of politeness theory
The present study attempts to analyze the interventions of Speakers of Polish and British Parliaments in the selected exchanges from 2018 to 2019 in terms of discourse-sensitive politeness theory advanced by Jonathan Culpeper. He proposes to use three types of impoliteness that affect three types of interlocutors’ faces via a range of impoliteness strategies. In the analyses we consider the linguistic, personal, and cultural as well as political …
Poola intertekstuaalsed meemid Covid pandeemia kohta
The aim of the paper is to show the Polish story of the Covid-19 pandemic as seen through a humorous looking glass. Different stages of coronavirus presence in the media and social discourse have been accompanied by the appearance and development of jokes and memes, which illustrate the rapidly changing pandemic situation. The database consists of over three hundred memes, movies, and comments collected between February and May 2020, during the p…
Sophisticated humor against Covid-19: The Polish case
The analysis undertaken in the article focuses on a group of memes selected from the database which drew on culture-specific references. Specifically, they embrace the memories of socialist times and call on references to comic films and easily recognized characters in order to bring out the re-discovered absurdity of the current COVID-19 situation. This material seems ideal to revisit Raskin’s early notion of sophistication, which was broadly ar…
The drama of dialogue action in distinct discourse spaces: Conservative and liberal humour in television talk shows
The article addresses the issue of intracultural dialogue between two strong political mindsets, liberal and conservative. This polarization is typical of contemporary cultural divides and emerges in the public sphere through mass media, often finding its outlet through humour, which may be treated as a mediating factor. It will be discussed on the example of a popular Polish humorous talk show broadcast on the public TV channel as compared to on…
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…
Villy Tsakona: Recontextualizing humor. Rethinking the analysis and teaching of humor
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…
Group boundaries in humor in the online public sphere
One of the fundamental functions of humor is establishing the boundaries between groups. While it is very easy to trace this function in private settings, it often becomes more challenging in the online public sphere, where different groups of humor audiences overlap; there, using audience-restricting references can be counterproductive by establishing boundaries and preventing the efficient spread of jokes. Using the database on humor and confli…
From Venus de Milo to Nike ads: The role of art references in the production of Covid-19 humour in Central and Eastern Europe
This study examines the role of art references in the production of humour in COVID-19 Internet memes in Central and Eastern Europe. Taking a broad understanding of art (including fine art and popular culture references), we examine how humorous references to local, regional, glocal, and global art bring together and negotiate between different contexts: the verbal and the visual; the political and the cultural; the ‘old’ (pre-pandemic) and the ‘…
Art in digital humour: Interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches—introduction to the special issue
This introduction reveals the methodological and theoretical tenets underpinning the research presented in this special issue, and provides an overview of the main findings. An interdisciplinary group of scholars attempted a multifaceted study of art in digital humour, instantiated in (but not restricted to) internet memes pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic theme. The contributions deal with a wide array of aspects involved in the recontextualiz…
Past and present clashes as a source of humor
This paper aims to illustrate the semiotic and pragmatic basis of the humorous opposition between past and present scripts, which underlie many examples of multimodal humor. Highly popular among Polish viewers, the Netflix series 1670 (produced in 2023) is taken under scrutiny as a good illustration of the possibilities that the historical mockumentary as a broadly conceived genre offers to comment on contemporary global conflicts, especially bet…
Psychology (19 works) · Humor Studies and Applications (16 works) · Linguistics (13 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Art (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works)