Appreciation of humor in Hungarian anti-proverbs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3633697 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dóra Boronkai (corresponding author), Anna Litovkina, Анна Т Литовкина (0000-0002-0408-3873) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 105-134 |
| Publication date | 2007-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Acta Ethnographica Hungarica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1216-9803 • E-ISSN: 1588-2586 |
| Publisher | Akademiai Kiado Zrt (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1556/aethn.52.2007.1.4 |
| OpenAlex | W2016612053 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 21 |
In this study we analyze the results of a sociolinguistic survey conducted in Hungary in 2005–2006. The main purpose of this study was to employ the methods of correlational and quantitative sociolinguistics to assess how age, sex and education influence appreciation of humor in anti-proverbs (also known as alterations, parodies, transformations, variations, wisecracks). Each participant in the survey received a list consisting of 41 Hungarian anti-proverbs. The task of respondents was to read the antiproverbs and indicate their rate of funniness on a scale of 0 to 10.This paper focuses on three major questions. First, how do sex, age and education influence the overall scores of evaluation of funniness? The second goal was to consider differences in humor evaluation by sex, age and education with respect to some thematic categories treated in the anti-proverbs, including sexuality, obscenity, men, women, and modern technology. Our third aim was to establish the lists of the anti-proverbs which got the highest and lowest scores of funniness from the subjects as a group, as well as from respondents representing different subgroups: those who belonged to different age cohorts, genders, and those with different levels of education. We began our research with seven hypotheses generated by previous humor studies; the results of our study confirmed five of the hypotheses and disconfirmed one; the remaining hypothesis was neither confirmed nor disconfirmed
Developmental psychology · Human sexuality · Linguistics · Sociolinguistics · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Gender Studies · Humor Studies and Applications · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Theoretical Studies Towards a Sociology of Language
Language in use
Representations
Humor preference as a subtle measure of attitudes toward the same and the opposite sex 1
Exploration of Individual Differences in Preferences for Humor
The JAP joke controversy
The disinhibiting effects of humor
The prevalence of sense of humor in a large, unselected county population in Norway
Gender differences in humor appreciation
Twisted Wisdom
Sex of subject and gender identity as factors in humor appreciation
The informational and facilitative effects of an audience upon expression and the evaluation of humorous stimuli
Consistency between expressive behavior and the elevation of humorous stimuli
Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious 1905
Most frequent types of alteration in Anglo-American, German, French, Russian and Hungarian anti-proverbs
Proverbs in wellerisms
Folklore and Obscenity
Rationale of the Dirty Joke
Misconceptions in Erotic Folklore
Say Something Dirty
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,26 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2015 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |