Israeli Journal of Humor Research: An International Journal

Volume 1, Issue 1 (2012) ISSN ????

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EDITORIAL:

The Inaugural Issue.

Ephraim Nissan, London, and Arie Sover, Ashkelon

Other Keywords: New journal: context; Growth of the discipline;

Spread of humour research per year and journals

[full paper] (pp. 1–5)

REGULAR ARTICLES:

PRAGMATICS:

Garden paths, red lights and crossroads: On finding our way to understanding the cognitive mechanisms underlying jokes.

Marta Dynel, Łódź [full paper] (pp. 6–28)

Other Keywords: Jokes: Taxonomy; Incongruity-resolution mechanisms; Garden paths; Red lights kind of jokes; Crossroads kind of jokes

LITERARY STUDIES:

2011: The Sesquicentennial of the Birth of

America’s Top Hebrew Humorist

The sweat of the (low) brow: New York immigrant life in Gerson Rosenzweig’s satire. Facets of his talmudic parody Tractate America.

Ephraim Nissan, London [full paper] (pp. 29–83)

Other Keywords: Jewish studies; Pastiche; Parody; Satire; Social conditions (immigrants);

Trade union, strikes, immigrant labor. America (perception); America (discovery)

PSYCHOLOGY:

Extreme fear of being laughed at: components of gelotophobia.

Tracey Platt, Willibald Ruch, Jennifer Hofmann, and René T. Proyer, Zurich

[full paper] (pp. 84–106)

Other Keywords: Clinical psychology; Phobia

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS:

A tentative evaluation of the spread of humour studies

among journals in other domains.

Ephraim Nissan, London

[full paper] (pp. 107–210)

Other Keywords: History of the discipline; Interdisciplinary research; Chronology; Bibliometrics

BOOK REVIEWS:

Studies in Political Humour, edited by Villy Tsakona and Diana Elena Popa. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2011.

Christie Davies, Reading

[download review] (pp. 211–212)

Several further reviews will be posted soon.