While many scholars have examined the subject of misogyny in Old French fabliaux in a number of contexts, no consensus has yet been reached on how the fabliaux can be considered humorous in the light of the stereotypes found therein. By conducting a close contextualised study of three fabliaux, this paper asserts that the humour of the fabliaux is created out of misogynous stereotypes by invest...

A semiology-based approach to understanding humour is being developed and an interpretation of as a “counter-sign,” two-faced sign within the space conventionality, put forward. The range core attributes interpret phenomenon determined. concepts “frame significance,” “conventionality,” “meta-communicative marker conventionality” are elaborated. general definition formulated “sign-based identifi...

Abstract Objectives Previous studies on the comprehension and appreciation of humour in individuals with Williams syndrome (WS) have only included complex types that required cognitive abilities. Additionally, although WS been described as having a bias towards positive emotions, no study has investigated their expressive responses to humour. Methods The present examined basic processing skills...

PURPOSE To investigate the optical intensity in different compartments of subretinal fluid in acute Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease by using spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). METHODS Fifty acute VKH eyes and 25 cases with acute central serous chorioretinopathy (CSCR) were included in this retrospective comparative study. The optical intensities of subretinal fluid, vit...

The relevance of the concept ‘Intolerance of Ambiguity’ within the field of humour has been investigated. It is predicted that intolerant people prefer jokes whose incongruity is solvable whilst rejecting the non-solvable nonsense jokes. Subjects were 134 male students who were asked to complete questionnaires and to rate 120 jokes according to the criteria ‘Funniness’ and ‘Rejection’. Both hyp...