This study is the first to investigate how a local government’s humorously framed response strategy on social media to a low-severity crisis influences people ’s trust in the local government and their crisis-relate...
Chinese audience love British comedy for its unique humorous effect, and the interlingual communication of humorous effects has become a major problem affecting the audience's viewing experience. Taking the subtitle t...
This paper takes an integrative approach to the communication and comprehension of humor from the perspectives of the humorist’s manipulation and the recipient’s vigilance informed by relevance theory.It is proposed...
Though with different times and backgrounds,these three masterpieces-"The Egg","The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"and"Shiloh"all humorously characterize the same type protagonist-the"little man".Penetrating the humorous...
When I recently referred to China as the world’s largest developing country to some of my European friends,they thought it was a humorous understatement since they have been to many Chinese cities and have the impres...