Abstract Whilst existing studies have investigated ludic translanguaging practices in diverse contexts, little knowledge is available on dad jokes, a common language play phenomenon Chinese online contexts. To fill this gap, focusing jokes the Weibo platform, paper investigates how and why operate by micro-blogging users. Drawing upon theoretical framework of qualitative phenomenological approa...

BACKGROUND Many jokes exist about stereotypical attributes of physicians in various specialties, which could lead to prejudices against physicians from a specific specialty. It is unknown whether and when medical students are aware of stereotypes about different specialties. The goal of this study was to analyze the degree of stereotypes that exist about medical specialties amongst undergraduat...

Language is one of the most powerful means through which sexism and gender discrimination are perpetrated reproduced (Menegatti Rubini, 2017). The study examined contrarian features gender-based online humor in relation to mainstreaming development (GAD). Discourse analysis was used as a method examining discourse markers terms defaulting jokes normal, tolerating sexist jokes, perceiving that i...

As part of a project to construct an interactive program which would encourage children to play with language by building jokes, we developed a lexical database, starting from WordNet. To the existing information about part of speech, synonymy, hyponymy, etc., we have added phonetic representations and phonetic similarity ratings for pairs of words/phrases.