Katalin Vargha
Biographic Data
| ID | 324357 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katalin Vargha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katalin |
| FAMILY NAME | Vargha |
| SIGNATURE | VARGHA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6057-3121 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Using Wordplay to Create Humor in Estonian, Hungarian and Belarusian Covid-19 Memes
Wordplay is one of the most recurrent techniques used to create humor, and it is often among the first forms of humor to appear as a reaction to disastrous events ( Kuipers 2002). In this article, we categorize wordplay in COVID-19 humor according to the type of wordplay that accounts for the humorous effect. The analysis reveals that most of the wordplay humor in memes and jokes is based on paronymy, homonymy, with its subtypes of homography and…
Riddles in the Manuscript and Print Version of a 19th-Century Collection
Scholarly publication of folk riddles in Hungary started in the mid-19th century. Among the early sources was the first classic collection of Hungarian folktales, Eredeti népmesék [Authentic Folktales], compiled by László Arany, which includes a separate chapter comprising 54 riddle tales. Manuscripts related to this publication were found in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences among other collections from the 19th century and identified in the 196…
The visual representations of a Biblical proverb and its modifications in the Internet space
Proverbs have never been considered sacrosanct; on the contrary, they have frequently been used as satirical, ironic or humorous comments on a given situation. In the last few decades, they have been perverted and parodied so extensively that their variations have been sometimes heard more often than their original forms. Naturally, the most well-known Biblical proverbs are very frequently transformed and modified in various languages. “He who di…
Creativity and Humor in the Online Folklore of the 2014 Elections in Hungary
In the twenty-first century, digital media (including email, blogs, and social networks) plays an important role in political communication -both in the official communication of political campaigns and in the popular political humor of the elections.This paper focuses on the online, mainly humorous, folklore of the 2014 Hungarian elections.It demonstrates how, using traditional patterns of folklore as well as individual creativity, this material…
Punning in Hungarian anti-proverbs
Proverbs have never been considered sacrosanct; on the contrary, they have frequently been used as satirical, ironic or humorous comments on a given situation. Wolfgang Mieder has coined the term "Antisprichwort" (anti-proverb) for such deliberate proverb innovations. There are a number of mechanisms of proverb variation (which are by no means mutually exclusive), e.g. adding a tail to the original text, replacing a single word, melting two prove…
Polysémie, homonymie et homophonie dans les proverbes détournés — avec des exemples Français, Hongrois, Anglais, Allemands et Russes
On the basis of French, Hungarian, English, German and Russian corpora of anti-proverbs (deliberate proverb innovations, also known as alterations, mutations, parodies, transformations, variations, wisecracks, and fractured proverbs), we examine word play based on polysemy, homonymy, and homophony. After a survey of the proverbs most frequently used for these types of alteration, this study investigates anti-proverbs linked to the theme of sexual…
Paronomasie oder wie ein Sprichwort zum Antisprichwort wird
Paronomasia is a popular form of wordplay often used to transform proverbs into antiproverbs (deliberate proverb innovations, also known as alterations, mutations, parodies, transformations, variations, wisecracks, and fractured proverbs) by replacing certain phonemes with similar ones, or by adding or omitting phonemes. The present paper describes and exemplifies this sort of pun by using selected German, Hungarian, English, French and Russian l…
Most frequent types of alteration in Anglo-American, German, French, Russian and Hungarian anti-proverbs
Proverbs have never been considered sacrosanct; on the contrary, they have frequently been used as satirical, ironic or humorous comments on a given situation. Wolfgang Mieder has coined the term “Antisprichwort” (anti-proverb) for such deliberate proverb innovations (also known as alterations, mutations, parodies, transformations, variations, wisecracks, fractured proverbs). The focus of this study is on different mechanisms of variation in Angl…
Proverb is as proverb does: A preliminary analysis of a survey on the use of hungarian proverbs and anti-proverbs
In this study we analyze the results of a sociolinguistic survey conducted in Hungary in 2004–2005, with the goal of exploring some popular views of the proverb and anti-proverb and their functions in contemporary Hungarian society. Using data collected from 298 subjects, we focus on three major questions. First, our aim was to establish the lists of the proverbs most frequently used nowadays, as well as the ones most popular for variation. Our s…
Most frequent types of alteration in Anglo-American, German, French, Russian and Hungarian anti-proverbs
Proverbs have never been considered sacrosanct; on the contrary, they have frequently been used as satirical, ironic or humorous comments on a given situation. Wolfgang Mieder has coined the term “Antisprichwort” (anti-proverb) for such deliberate proverb innovations (also known as alterations, mutations, parodies, transformations, variations, wisecracks, fractured proverbs). The focus of this study is on different mechanisms of variation in Angl…
Most frequent types of alteration in Anglo-American, German, French, Russian and Hungarian anti-proverbs
Proverbs have never been considered sacrosanct; on the contrary, they have frequently been used as satirical, ironic or humorous comments on a given situation. Wolfgang Mieder has coined the term “Antisprichwort” (anti-proverb) for such deliberate proverb innovations (also known as alterations, mutations, parodies, transformations, variations, wisecracks, fractured proverbs). The focus of this study is on different mechanisms of variation in Angl…
Proverb is as proverb does: A preliminary analysis of a survey on the use of hungarian proverbs and anti-proverbs
In this study we analyze the results of a sociolinguistic survey conducted in Hungary in 2004–2005, with the goal of exploring some popular views of the proverb and anti-proverb and their functions in contemporary Hungarian society. Using data collected from 298 subjects, we focus on three major questions. First, our aim was to establish the lists of the proverbs most frequently used nowadays, as well as the ones most popular for variation. Our s…
Polysémie, homonymie et homophonie dans les proverbes détournés — avec des exemples Français, Hongrois, Anglais, Allemands et Russes
On the basis of French, Hungarian, English, German and Russian corpora of anti-proverbs (deliberate proverb innovations, also known as alterations, mutations, parodies, transformations, variations, wisecracks, and fractured proverbs), we examine word play based on polysemy, homonymy, and homophony. After a survey of the proverbs most frequently used for these types of alteration, this study investigates anti-proverbs linked to the theme of sexual…
Paronomasie oder wie ein Sprichwort zum Antisprichwort wird
Paronomasia is a popular form of wordplay often used to transform proverbs into antiproverbs (deliberate proverb innovations, also known as alterations, mutations, parodies, transformations, variations, wisecracks, and fractured proverbs) by replacing certain phonemes with similar ones, or by adding or omitting phonemes. The present paper describes and exemplifies this sort of pun by using selected German, Hungarian, English, French and Russian l…
Punning in Hungarian anti-proverbs
Proverbs have never been considered sacrosanct; on the contrary, they have frequently been used as satirical, ironic or humorous comments on a given situation. Wolfgang Mieder has coined the term "Antisprichwort" (anti-proverb) for such deliberate proverb innovations. There are a number of mechanisms of proverb variation (which are by no means mutually exclusive), e.g. adding a tail to the original text, replacing a single word, melting two prove…
Creativity and Humor in the Online Folklore of the 2014 Elections in Hungary
In the twenty-first century, digital media (including email, blogs, and social networks) plays an important role in political communication -both in the official communication of political campaigns and in the popular political humor of the elections.This paper focuses on the online, mainly humorous, folklore of the 2014 Hungarian elections.It demonstrates how, using traditional patterns of folklore as well as individual creativity, this material…
The visual representations of a Biblical proverb and its modifications in the Internet space
Proverbs have never been considered sacrosanct; on the contrary, they have frequently been used as satirical, ironic or humorous comments on a given situation. In the last few decades, they have been perverted and parodied so extensively that their variations have been sometimes heard more often than their original forms. Naturally, the most well-known Biblical proverbs are very frequently transformed and modified in various languages. “He who di…
Riddles in the Manuscript and Print Version of a 19th-Century Collection
Scholarly publication of folk riddles in Hungary started in the mid-19th century. Among the early sources was the first classic collection of Hungarian folktales, Eredeti népmesék [Authentic Folktales], compiled by László Arany, which includes a separate chapter comprising 54 riddle tales. Manuscripts related to this publication were found in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences among other collections from the 19th century and identified in the 196…
Using Wordplay to Create Humor in Estonian, Hungarian and Belarusian Covid-19 Memes
Wordplay is one of the most recurrent techniques used to create humor, and it is often among the first forms of humor to appear as a reaction to disastrous events ( Kuipers 2002). In this article, we categorize wordplay in COVID-19 humor according to the type of wordplay that accounts for the humorous effect. The analysis reveals that most of the wordplay humor in memes and jokes is based on paronymy, homonymy, with its subtypes of homography and…
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