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Badania dyskursu ludycznego w opolskiej szkole stylistycznej

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Brzozowska D.
Oblicza Komunikacji
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2012
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vol. 5
101-110
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The aim of the article is to present ludic discourse studies in the Opole school of stylistics. First, the author presents the very term “discourse” and its collocations, showing how fashionable it is, in how many different contexts it can be used and why it can be useful also in humour studies. Then she outlines the premises and most important achievements of two collaborating schools: Lublin ethnolinguistic school and Opole stylistics school. This is the background of ludic discourse studies conducted by the latter.
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Humor w tabloidach

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Brzozowska D.
Oblicza Komunikacji
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2011
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vol. 4
209-216
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The objective of this paper is a presentation of the results of an analysis of the Polish tabloid press from the point of view of the types of humorous texts appearing in it. The research material has been derived from various issues of the "Fakt" and "Super Express" dailies published at the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011. The comic content can be found in permanent columns or occasional articles published in these newspapers. In the majority of cases, humour in the tabloids has the form of satire or irony and is of an aggressive character. Its sting is directed at particular people identified by name and assigned to a certain age category. Such people are usually politicians, actors, singers, sportsmen and all types of other celebrities. Frequently, it is possible to observe combinations of a mocking text with a humorous picture, or less seldom — a drawing illustrating such text. Linguistic jokes are most often created by means of common rhymes or they are based on the exposition of double meanings or the transformation of commonplace collocations. General comic mechanisms such as the accumulation of particular elements, exaggeration and contrast are the main means of expression used in texts published in both of the aforementioned newspapers.
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Styl osobniczy uczonego a uniwersalność kategorii stylu

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Brzozowska D.
Stylistyka
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2016
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vol. 25
59-70
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The aim of this paper is to raise the questions of style and communication as universal notions and as culture specific phenomena. Different definitions of style are given and the perspectives of two main cultural views dealing with this subject are shown. The points of view of representative of Polish scholars is compared with the focus on linguistic perception of style in Mandarin Chinese. The presentation of the most important essentials of the Professor's Gajda individual style has been chosen as he has been studying various aspects of style for over forty years and he uses concepts typical for Slavic and European scholars. A predominance of analyses of actual texts is based on a comparison of his own text on academic style. It also contains selected most characteristic elements from his other texts and a comparison of his early comments on style and stylistics and the latest definitions thereof. The understanding of style as a concept connected with the Western philosophical, aesthetic and linguistic tradition is compared with the Eastern i.e. – Chinese views on this phenomenon to track differences and similarities showing the universal character of some concepts connected with human language and cognition.
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Prawda i fałsz w humorystycznych opowiadaniach chińskich

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Brzozowska D.
Stylistyka
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2015
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vol. 24
389-401
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The aim of the paper is to explain the differences between the concepts of truth and lie in European and Chinese cultures and to verify if the differences are visible in particular humorous stories. Another objective is to see what the consequences of lying in those stories are, and what they say about the pictured value systems. Pursuing dao was the main task in the scholarship of most of the ancient Chinese philosophers, while the Ancient Greek philosophers considered pursuing truth as their ultimate goal. Dao is a polysemous word in the ancient Chinese language, with multiple meanings of ‘way’, ‘road’, ‘walk’ and ‘speak,’ etc.To check the humorous potential of the Chinese stories, one hundred texts coming from different sources and various time spans have been taken into consideration. Some of them were old and traditional; others came from the pages of the texts for learners of Chinese as a foreign language, and still some other stories were taken from a contemporary anthology. Only five per cent of the stories deal with the subject of truth and lie, and the distribution was not equal in various sources.
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POZNAJMY SIĘ W POZNANIU! MINIKURS JĘZYKA POLSKIEGO DLA CUDZOZIEMCÓW, red. I. Wieczorek, Poznań: Instytut Filologii Polskiej Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, 2014, e-book, 51 s.

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Brzozowska D.
Stylistyka
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2015
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vol. 24
469-472
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Polish Jokes about Americans

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Brzozowska D.
Investigationes Linguisticae
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2004
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vol. 11
1-10
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The objective of the present paper is to analyze the character of Polish jokes about Americans and to find out what these jokes say about Poles. The latter question results from the assumption that stereotypes reveal more about those who propagate them than about those who allegedly represent particular traits. The popularity of Americans is a certain novelty in contemporary Polish jokes and this fact could be interpreted as another element in the processes of so-called McDonaldization. The texts are presented by the chronology of events they refer to. Americans are perceived by Poles as the enemies of the Russians, and so as a positive protagonist, a symbol of the high standard of living and an embodiment of the dream of success and freedom. Wide open spaces and big American cities, cowboys, Indians, Hollywood and Coca Cola are other symbols frequently occurring in jokes. AIDS and drug addictions are also supposed to be the products of America altogether with American right to carry arms, litigiousness and death penalty. Another feature of the  Americans readily exploited by scoffers is a relatively short history and the hypocrisy of American political correctness. The general image of an American emerging from the analyzed jokes is largely positive and definitely more colorful than the image of a Pole in American jokes. Contextual references included in jokes show the knowledge of the Poles about America. And it does not really matter if this knowledge sometimes seems to be only a reflection of the image created and widespread by and for the use of the Americans themselves.
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Dowcipy a media. Pierwsza polska seria niesmacznych dowcipów katastroficznych

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Brzozowska D.
Stylistyka
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2010
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vol. 19
119-134
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The paper deals with the occurrence of sick disaster jokes in the Polish culture. It presents a characteristics of the Polish jokes about the crash of the air-plane with the Polish President and the First Lady on board as well as numcrous VIPs of the Polish establishment flying in to attend the commemoration event marking the 70th anniyersary of the Katyń massacre of thousands of Poles by Soviet forces during WWI1. The piane crashed near the Smoleńsk military airport on 10 April 2010. Three groups of te\ts about the Kaczyński brothers, their sources and socio-cultural conte\ts are analysed. The jokes cover the period before the disaster, describe its course and are also related to the 2010 presidential elections. The author compares the character of the Scripts appearing in the specified groups of jokes, and pays special attention to a unique in Polish culture character of the jokes related to mass media, their connections with traditions and w ith the systems of values and beliefs. Such jokes undergo a unification under the influence of the globalisation changing Poles’ preferences conceming the ways of talking about disaster victims.
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Logiczne aspekty języka a teksty humorystyczne Rola mechanizmu logicznego w dowcipach

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Brzozowska D.
Investigationes Linguisticae
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2012
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vol. 25
15-26
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"The objective of this paper is a presentation of the relations between the logical aspects of a language and the study of jokes. The linguistic material used in sample analyses comprises modern texts about mathematicians which render the specific way of thinking attributed to this group within joke stereotypes. Bearing in mind that humour is frequently connected with creativity and an ability to depart from patterns, we should assume that when humorous texts are creative and break the rules, when they are inconsistent with standards and exceptional - and thus illogical - they fulfil their ludic purpose very well. Another fundamental issue is the existence and function of so-called nonsense humour which - being contrary to the principles of logic - constitutes a separate whole. Its distinction would imply that the remaining types of humorous texts are rational, that is logical. Thus humour may be both logical and illogical. The main objective of this paper is search for an answer to the question whether the logical mechanism is obligatorily present in every type of humour. "
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The Role of Gender in Language Communication: A Short Overview

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Brzozowska D.
Investigationes Linguisticae
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2002
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vol. 8
1-5
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The paper deals with the development of the gender concept and the way it is moving away from the notions of binary thinking. Its influence on the methods of linguistic analysis is taken into consideration. Different feminist ideologies – liberal, radical, socialist and cultural feminism as well as the feminism of power – are presented in the context of their view on women-men relations. Other ideologies that shape the idea of ‘doing gender’ are shown, too. All of them – postmodernism, identity politics and the globalization trend - come from outside linguistics. The binary classification is usually made automatically as an obvious and natural one. It is done against a strong tendency to underline the fuzziness of male-female boundaries in the philosophical speculations that are a starting point for the research in many disciplines.
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Book review: Marsh, Moira (2015). Practically Joking. Logan: Utah State University Press. 195 pp.

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Brzozowska D.
The European Journal of Humour Research
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2016
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vol. 4
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issue 2
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Book review: Marsh, Moira (2015). Practically Joking. Logan: Utah State University Press. 195 pp.
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Discourse about the end of the world

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Brzozowska D.
Lingua Posnaniensis
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2015
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vol. 56
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issue 1
29-40
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The increased prevalence of discourse concerning the expected end of the world was observed in various countries and manifested in various genres especially in the years 2000 and 2012. Some of the discourse was conducted in a serious manner, whereas other instances included humorous motifs and were used for commercial purposes. The aim of this paper is to take a closer look at the typical motifs prevailing in the discourse concerning the end of the world, with special emphasis on the humorous aspect - both universal and culture-specific. Texts found on Polish, German, English and Russian websites were analyzed. In the studied material, the end of the world was understood literally and broadly - in terms of extermination of the human race, eschatology - or narrowly, in terms of statistical data concerning the death of a given number of people, or even individually, referring to the imminent ending of each person’s particular world. T he metaphorical meaning of the end of the world was also used in the sense of “a commotion”, “the pressure of business”, “a mess, confusion”, and “accumulation of problems”, referring mostly to the functioning of particular institutions or lack of access to the Internet, or reviving common stereotypes.
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Perekond poola naljades

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Brzozowska D.
Mäetagused
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2012
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vol. 52
65-84
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The main aim of the research was to describe the image of family life presented in post-socialist jokelore. Contemporary material (from the late 1990s till the present day) consisting of jokes published in books, booklets, newspapers and on the Internet was collected and analysed for this study, altogether 600 jokes. As there is no special cycle of jokes connected with family life, texts of different series were taken into account in which the words “woman”, “man”, “child” or their synonyms were present. The results showed that there exist a number of stable targets, e.g. aggressive mothers-in-law or adulterous wives. New targets are reluctant to arise: there are no jokes about the paternal leave which was recently introduced and widely discussed in the media, and there are also no jokes about women drinking alcohol, although this problem exists in the society that gives more and more permission to women drinking in public places. We can conclude on the basis of this research that family jokes do not deal with current and topical issues; instead, they have remained mostly traditional with certain recurring cycles being at the core of the Polish cultural heritage.
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Kolm tegelast poola naljades

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Brzozowska D.
Mäetagused
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2012
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vol. 52
111-122
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The aim of this paper is to show how tripartite jokes have developed from ethnic jokes into jokes about professions. The attempt to answer the question about the universal and culture-specific character of those jokes is crucial. The introduction presents the relationships of the current topic with the number three as a folkloric universal. Stereotypical situations prompting the representatives of different nations to behave in a manner characteristic of them are then described, followed by the analysis of the entwining of ethnic, political, sexual, “logical” and other dimensions of humour in tripartite jokes. The historical contexts and the role that the closest and most relevant neighbours, i.e., the Russians and the Germans, play in Polish culture is presented and compared with the stereotypes and attitudes of other national characters present in jokes (e.g. the Czechs, the Americans). With this, we aim to answer the question if and when ethnic stereotypes are still present in contemporary jokes.
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Polish highlander jokes and their targets

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Chłopicki W., Brzozowska D.
The European Journal of Humour Research
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2017
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vol. 5
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issue 4
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The aim of the paper is to show the characteristic features of jokes about Polish highlanders and analyse them to identify the comic script of a highlander. This group of jokes is treated as a good illustration of Christie Davies’s ethnic jokes theory concerning witty versus stupid and centre versus periphery oppositions, as well as mind over matter in general. A particular type of reasoning and the use of regional dialect are distinctive features of the joke targets that make it possible to perceive these jokes as a culturally specific phenomenon. The head shepherd (called baca) is the key character of the cycle. He is a very down-to-earth person, who is proud of his practical wisdom and has a very relaxed attitude to life. His lifestyle is usually contrasted with that of ceper – often a tourist – treated as a kind of intruder who asks stupid questions and does not know how to appreciate life and what really matters in it. The jokes about highlanders are analysed within the paradigm of General Theory of Verbal Humor, and particularly its reasoning and reversal Logical Mechanisms. Even though Christie Davies treated the Logical Mechanism with some scepticism, claiming it is of no use in the GTVH (Davies 2004, 2011b), he would not probably mind the logic of highlanders’ utterances and behaviour being analysed. We believe he may even have enjoyed that.     
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From the Editors of the European Journal of Humour Research

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Brzozowska D., Chłopicki W., Tsakona V.
The European Journal of Humour Research
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2017
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vol. 5
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issue 4
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From the Editors of the European Journal of Humour Research
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Od redakcji

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Chłopicki W., Brzozowska D., Chruszczewski P.
Półrocznik Językoznawczy Tertium
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2016
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vol. 1
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issue 1&2
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Przedstawiamy Państwu pierwszy numer nowego czasopisma naukowego, które pojawiło się w polskim krajobrazie naukowym po 20 latach działalności Krakowskiego Towarzystwa Popularyzowania Wiedzy o Komunikacji Jezykowej „Tertium”.
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Editorial note on the publication of academic event reports

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Brzozowska D., Chłopicki W., Tsakona V.
The European Journal of Humour Research
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2017
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vol. 5
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issue 3
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Editorial note on the publication of academic event reports
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Editorial

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Popa D. E., Chlopicki W., Brzozowska D.
The European Journal of Humour Research
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2013
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vol. 1
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issue 1
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After more than forty years of existence, the field of humour research is flourishing. It seems that now more than ever the time is right for the study of humour in general. But how do we facilitate progress in our field? As Willibald Ruch rightly pointed out, “(…) as academics we don’t only have the obligation to conduct research and further our understanding of humour and laughter. We also have the obligation to teach our knowledge to those who want to learn and also to inform the public about what we know and what we don’t know in this area” (Ruch 2003: 5). Now that the field is mature and the work of researchers has moved into the mainstream of scholarly dialogue, the establishment of new alternative forums is the path to follow. Consequently, the present journal aims at promoting diversity in the field and providing a meaningful arena for discussion. Moreover, given that humour research spreads across many different journals and author or edited volumes, it is in our best interest, as an academic community, to be able to provide a new freely accesible scholarly journal that addresses the humour research community at large. Thus, the European Journal of Humour Research is an open-access multidisciplinary forum which is complementary to the leading HUMOUR: International Journal of Humour Research or the newly-born yet already acknowledged Israeli Journal of Humour Research: An International Journal.
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