Humour in popularization: Analysis of humour-related laughter in TED talks
This paper investigates the role of humour in TED talks, which are popularising speeches aiming at knowledge dissemination. Through the analysis of humour used in Eugene Cordero’s 2012 talk ‘A TED speaker’s worst nightmare’, Sebastian Wernicke’s Lies, damned lies and statistics, and Julia Sweeney’s...
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| Language: | English |
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Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies
2014-05-01
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| Series: | The European Journal of Humour Research |
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| Online Access: | https://www.europeanjournalofhumour.org/index.php/ejhr/article/view/43 |