Group boundaries in humor in the online public sphere

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ID6428044
AuthorsA Fiadotava (0000-0001-6985-1880, Estonian Literary Museum , Tartu , Estonia), Władysław Chłopicki (0000-0002-4675-4102, Institute of English Studies , Jagiellonian University , Kraków , Poland)
Year2024
Volume38
Issue1
Pages69-90
Publication date2024-09-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHumor - International Journal of Humor Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0933-1719 • E-ISSN: 1613-3722
PublisherDe Gruyter Mouton (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/humor-2024-0064
OpenAlexW4402877236
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited30

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 conflicts in the public sphere, we look at how humor producers use both in-group specific and widely known humorous references (that we call universal) to create jokes and memes. Based on a corpus of Belarusian and Polish public humor, we outline the most common specific categories of references, analyze how the prevalence of certain categories and types of references depends on the nature of the controversies, and explore the connections between the types of references (verbal or visual) and their nature (in-group and universal

Group (periodic table · Internet privacy · Physics · Political science · Public sphere · Computer Science · Digital Communication and Language · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Humor Studies and Applications · Psychology

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