Delia Chiaro
Biographic Data
| ID | 734736 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Delia Chiaro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Delia |
| FAMILY NAME | Chiaro |
| SIGNATURE | CHIARO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bologna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2587-1959 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Humorous Geographic Expression
This chapter conducts a detailed analysis of two film comedies produced with a sixty-year gap and aims to explore the persistent perpetuation of stereotypes about southern Italians. Using ethnic jokes as a framework, the argument centers on the portrayal of southerners as embodying characteristics like stupidity and dirtiness. In the 1956 classic Totò, Peppino e la ... malafemmina, humor arises as two southern country bumpkins on a trip to Milan …
If MPs have immunity, then why are they so afraid of the Coronavirus?’ Political humor during the first Covid-19 pandemic wave in Europe
The COVID-19 pandemic gave rise to an unprecedented circulation of online humor, an important part of which referred to politics and politicians. In the current study, we analyzed a sample of such humorous items (N = 361) across five European countries to find out how pandemic humor represented political leadership. We argue that COVID-19 political humor both politicized and depoliticized the figure of the politician. Pandemic political humor wen…
Laughing in the Face of the Law
The vulnerability of sex workers in the porn industry is a heated debate within feminism. The UK 2014 Audiovisual Media Services Regulations and 2017 Digital Economy Act, which burden the production of online pornography, provoked sex workers’ Face-Sitting and Kink Olympixxx protests. This paper investigates how throughout these protests, humour communicates sex workers’ discomfort on this legislation. Arguing that humour is a thermostat that sen…
Fandom versus citizenship
This paper examines occurrences of humour in Twitter-fed celebrity-follower communities. Using a small, one-month sample of the Twitter feeds of 12 British celebrities, we examined political and humorous content of celebrity tweets and the first five responses from their followers. From this preliminary study, we found that the notion of “weirdisation” strongly emerges, together with the new conceptual tool of “shards of humour”
An Austrian in Hollywood
This paper examines the work of Billy Wilder whose rich cinematic production frequently involves the collision of different languages as well as the clash of dissimilar cultures. As an Austrian living in the USA, the director had the privilege of gaining insight into his adopted culture from the point of view of an outsider – a bilingual ‘other’ who made 25 films in almost 40 years of working in Hollywood. His films recurrently depict foreign cha…
Tearing up the sanity clause
The law and lawyers are so pervasive in US life and culture that it should come as no surprise that they invite the kind of parody that the cinematic tradition has displayed from the birth of the movies to the present day. By examining a small number of well-known courtroom comedies, this short essay will examine how these movies often use an unlikely character, an outsider and an underdog in terms of class or education who is unable to adhere to…
Vivi Pericolosamente”
This essay provides a brief overview of English jokes targeting Italians, and sets out to show how internet memes are a progression of traditional jokes in which Italians are the butts but with a modern twist
Audiovisual Translation
Audiovisual translation (AVT) is the term used to refer to the transfer from one language to another of the verbal components contained in audiovisual works and products. Feature films, television programs, theatrical plays, musicals, opera, Web pages, and video games are just some examples of the vast array of audiovisual products available and that require translation. As the word suggests, audiovisuals are made to be both heard ( audio ) and s…
Foreword. Verbally Expressed Humor and translation
The introduction of the Special Issue of Humor dedicated to Humor and Translation present a review of the state of the art of this neglected field both from the perspective of Humor Studies and Tranlsation Studies
Interpreters' Perception of Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Factors Affecting Quality
This paper will present and discuss the results of an empirical study on perception of quality in interpretation carried out on a sample of 286 interpreters across five continents. Since the 1980's the field of Interpreting Studies has been witnessing an ever growing interest in the issue of quality in interpretation both in academia and in professional circles, but research undertaken so far is surprisingly lacking in methodological rigour. This…
The Language of Jokes
Foreword. Verbally Expressed Humor and translation
The introduction of the Special Issue of Humor dedicated to Humor and Translation present a review of the state of the art of this neglected field both from the perspective of Humor Studies and Tranlsation Studies
Interpreters' Perception of Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Factors Affecting Quality
This paper will present and discuss the results of an empirical study on perception of quality in interpretation carried out on a sample of 286 interpreters across five continents. Since the 1980's the field of Interpreting Studies has been witnessing an ever growing interest in the issue of quality in interpretation both in academia and in professional circles, but research undertaken so far is surprisingly lacking in methodological rigour. This…
Laughing in the Face of the Law
The vulnerability of sex workers in the porn industry is a heated debate within feminism. The UK 2014 Audiovisual Media Services Regulations and 2017 Digital Economy Act, which burden the production of online pornography, provoked sex workers’ Face-Sitting and Kink Olympixxx protests. This paper investigates how throughout these protests, humour communicates sex workers’ discomfort on this legislation. Arguing that humour is a thermostat that sen…
An Austrian in Hollywood
This paper examines the work of Billy Wilder whose rich cinematic production frequently involves the collision of different languages as well as the clash of dissimilar cultures. As an Austrian living in the USA, the director had the privilege of gaining insight into his adopted culture from the point of view of an outsider – a bilingual ‘other’ who made 25 films in almost 40 years of working in Hollywood. His films recurrently depict foreign cha…
The Language of Jokes
Interpreters' Perception of Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Factors Affecting Quality
This paper will present and discuss the results of an empirical study on perception of quality in interpretation carried out on a sample of 286 interpreters across five continents. Since the 1980's the field of Interpreting Studies has been witnessing an ever growing interest in the issue of quality in interpretation both in academia and in professional circles, but research undertaken so far is surprisingly lacking in methodological rigour. This…
Foreword. Verbally Expressed Humor and translation
The introduction of the Special Issue of Humor dedicated to Humor and Translation present a review of the state of the art of this neglected field both from the perspective of Humor Studies and Tranlsation Studies
Audiovisual Translation
Audiovisual translation (AVT) is the term used to refer to the transfer from one language to another of the verbal components contained in audiovisual works and products. Feature films, television programs, theatrical plays, musicals, opera, Web pages, and video games are just some examples of the vast array of audiovisual products available and that require translation. As the word suggests, audiovisuals are made to be both heard ( audio ) and s…
Vivi Pericolosamente”
This essay provides a brief overview of English jokes targeting Italians, and sets out to show how internet memes are a progression of traditional jokes in which Italians are the butts but with a modern twist
An Austrian in Hollywood
This paper examines the work of Billy Wilder whose rich cinematic production frequently involves the collision of different languages as well as the clash of dissimilar cultures. As an Austrian living in the USA, the director had the privilege of gaining insight into his adopted culture from the point of view of an outsider – a bilingual ‘other’ who made 25 films in almost 40 years of working in Hollywood. His films recurrently depict foreign cha…
Tearing up the sanity clause
The law and lawyers are so pervasive in US life and culture that it should come as no surprise that they invite the kind of parody that the cinematic tradition has displayed from the birth of the movies to the present day. By examining a small number of well-known courtroom comedies, this short essay will examine how these movies often use an unlikely character, an outsider and an underdog in terms of class or education who is unable to adhere to…
Fandom versus citizenship
This paper examines occurrences of humour in Twitter-fed celebrity-follower communities. Using a small, one-month sample of the Twitter feeds of 12 British celebrities, we examined political and humorous content of celebrity tweets and the first five responses from their followers. From this preliminary study, we found that the notion of “weirdisation” strongly emerges, together with the new conceptual tool of “shards of humour”
Laughing in the Face of the Law
The vulnerability of sex workers in the porn industry is a heated debate within feminism. The UK 2014 Audiovisual Media Services Regulations and 2017 Digital Economy Act, which burden the production of online pornography, provoked sex workers’ Face-Sitting and Kink Olympixxx protests. This paper investigates how throughout these protests, humour communicates sex workers’ discomfort on this legislation. Arguing that humour is a thermostat that sen…
A Humorous Geographic Expression
This chapter conducts a detailed analysis of two film comedies produced with a sixty-year gap and aims to explore the persistent perpetuation of stereotypes about southern Italians. Using ethnic jokes as a framework, the argument centers on the portrayal of southerners as embodying characteristics like stupidity and dirtiness. In the 1956 classic Totò, Peppino e la ... malafemmina, humor arises as two southern country bumpkins on a trip to Milan …
If MPs have immunity, then why are they so afraid of the Coronavirus?’ Political humor during the first Covid-19 pandemic wave in Europe
The COVID-19 pandemic gave rise to an unprecedented circulation of online humor, an important part of which referred to politics and politicians. In the current study, we analyzed a sample of such humorous items (N = 361) across five European countries to find out how pandemic humor represented political leadership. We argue that COVID-19 political humor both politicized and depoliticized the figure of the politician. Pandemic political humor wen…
Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Translation Studies and Practices (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Humor Studies and Applications (3 works)