International Studies in Humour

Volume 6, Issue 1 (2017)                        ISSN 2052-3475

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EDITORIAL:

Introducing the Volume of 2017.

Ephraim Nissan, London                              [editorial]  (p. 1)

OBITUARY:

Christie Davies (1941–2017).

Ephraim Nissan, London                               [obituary]  (p. 2–3)

REGULAR ARTICLES:

PSYCHOLOGY:

Humor in a Psychoanalytical Perspective.

Carlo Cristini, Brescia

Valeria Camporese, Brescia

Giovannantonio Forabosco, Ravenna         [full paper]  (pp. 4–15)                

Keywords: Logic; Humour; Psychoanalysis; Super-ego; Melancholy; Defence mechanism; Maternal role.

SOCIOLOGY OF HUMOUR / OCCUPATIONAL CULTURES:

Cartoons and the Social Construction of ‘Cop Culture’:

A Force in an Australian Force?

Chris Powell, Portland, Maine                  [full paper]  (pp. 16–52)

Keywords:  Policing; Cartoons; Australia; Occupational cultures.

HUMOUR THEORY / LITERARY THEORY:

Sense and Humor in Russian Formalism. Part I.

Basil Lvoff, New York & Moscow             [full paper]  (pp. 53–80)

 Keywords:  Alexander Slonimsky; Andrei Bely; Bakhtin; Baudelaire; Bergson; Cervantes; comedy; comic; construction; Eikhenbaum; formal cause; gaiety; Gogol; Husserl; interplay; Roman Jakobson; joke; Leontiev; meaning; merry; Opoyaz; José Ortega y Gasset; ostranenie; parody; psychologism; Pumpyansky; Russian Formalism; Shklovsky; teleology; tragedy; Tynianov; Vygotsky; zaum’.

HUMOUR THEORY / COGNITION / HUMOUR TRANSLATION:

Translation of Humorous Literature:

A Hyper-blend of Mental Spaces.

Galia Hirsch, Ramat-Gan                         [full paper]  (pp. 81–95)

Keywords:  Blending theory; Mental spaces; Humor; Incongruity; Translation.

HUMOUR TRANSLATION / SHOLEM ALEICHEM CENTENNIAL:

Sholem Aleichem in Estonian and Lithuanian:

An Attempt of Translation Comparison.

Anna Verschik, Tallinn                            [full paper]  (pp. 96–115)

Keywords:  Translation, Sholem Aleichem, Estonian, Lithuanian.

EDITORIAL NOTE:

SHOLEM ALEICHEM CENTENNIAL:

Post Script: A Hundred Years since Sholem Aleichem's Demise.

Ephraim Nissan, London                           [full paper]  (pp. 116–125)

Keywords:  Sholem Aleichem; Yiddish literature; Ethnic humour;

                  Parody; Relating tragedy within humorous text.