https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Wed, 06 May 2020 11:28:28 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/intertextuality-and-in-political-jokes/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:40 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/intertextuality-and-in-political-jokes/ Continued]]> The aim of the present study is to explore the interplay between intertextuality and humor in contemporary political jokes. The intertextual allusions included in such texts involve (con)texts projected as ‘shared’ knowledge by joke tellers. However, they may render joke comprehension a demanding task, thus excluding potential joke recipients from the ingroup joke tellers attempt to construct. At the same time, the intertextual presuppositions of political jokes may foster the ideological alignment between joke tellers and joke recipients, as they are based on specific evaluations of sociopolitical affairs, which need to be accepted by recipients wishing to establish coherence. The data examined here comes from a large corpus of the Greek jokes on the current financial crisis.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/this-is-not-a-political-party-this-is-facebook-political-jokes-and-political-mistrust-in-crisis-ridden-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:52 +0000 http://arc.local/items/this-is-not-a-political-party-this-is-facebook-political-jokes-and-political-mistrust-in-crisis-ridden-greece/ Continued]]> The present study attempts to combine Raskin’s (1985) and Davies’ (2011) methodological approaches to political jokes to investigate Greek political jokes targeting politicians and circulated during the first 4 years of the Greek crisis. The proposed analysis identifies, on the one hand, what Greek people perceive as politicians’ main incongruities, namely their flaws that prevent them from fulfilling their roles ‘appropriately’. On the other hand, the particularities of the sociopolitical context in Greece and, most importantly, the pervasive lack of political trust among Greeks allow for an interpretation of the jokes under scrutiny as expressions of disillusionment and disappointment with politicians and the political system in general, and as manifestations of mild, playful aggression towards them. The findings of the study reveal that the accusations raised in the jokes against politicians capture and reproduce quite accurately most of the aspects and causes of political mistrust in Greece.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/the-doctor-said-i-suffer-from-vitamin-e-deficiency-investigating-the-multiple-social-functions-of-greek-crisis-jokes/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:37 +0000 http://arc.local/items/the-doctor-said-i-suffer-from-vitamin-e-deficiency-investigating-the-multiple-social-functions-of-greek-crisis-jokes/ Continued]]> Research on political jokes has more often than not concentrated on their content, which is related to, and interpreted in view of, the sociopolitical events and contexts that have given rise to the jokes investigated each time. The present study intends to suggest that there are other aspects of political joke-telling that could be taken into consideration when exploring its social functions and goals: First, the subgenres employed by speakers to convey their humorous perspectives on political issues; and, second, speakers’ spontaneous comments on the jokes under scrutiny. The variety of subgenres could be related to the diverse ways joke-tellers perceive and encode their everyday problems and political views. Speakers’ spontaneous comments on the content and effects of jokes could reveal why they consider such texts tellable and recyclable, as well as how they evaluate them. The political jokes analyzed here come from a large corpus of humorous material about the current Greek debt crisis and its sociopolitical effects on the Greek society. The analysis reveals the multifunctionality of such jokes: They convey a critical perspective on the current sociopolitical conditions in Greece, strengthen the solidarity bonds among Greek speakers, entertain them, and bolster their morale.

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