Early Titanic Jokes : A disaster for the theory of disaster
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Early Titanic Jokes : A disaster for the theory of disaster jokes?

CHOVANEC, Jan

Základní údaje

Originální název

Early Titanic Jokes : A disaster for the theory of disaster jokes?

Autoři

CHOVANEC, Jan

Vydání

30th ISHS Conference - Humour : Positively (?) Transforming, 25-29 June 2018, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia, 2018

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60203 Linguistics

Stát vydavatele

Estonsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/18:00105880

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova česky

humor; katastrofické vtipy; teorie humoru; Titanic; historické časopisy; historická pragmatika

Klíčová slova anglicky

humour; disaster jokes; humour theories; Titanic; historical periodicals; historical pragmatics

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 5. 2. 2019 15:37, Mgr. Jana Pelclová, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

This paper challenges and revises Christie Davies’s theory of disaster jokes. Based on the discovery of several very early jokes on the Titanic disaster, all obtained from a contemporary Czech humoristic magazine, I suggest that Davies’ position that “there are no contemporary jokes” about pre-television disasters (2003: 17) is no longer tenable in view of the new data. Evidently, various forms of humor existed about current disasters even before the advent of television (and later the internet), which are otherwise considered as central to the production of sick humor and joke cycles on disaster events (cf. Ellis 2001; Kuipers 2002, 2005). While the lack of historical data makes it difficult to speculate on whether we can actually talk about “joke cycles”, the mere existence of contemporary Titanic jokes requires us to reconsider the privileged role of television, as propounded in Christie Davies’s model. Apparently, the mediatization of disaster news through early print media was quite sufficient to trigger the generation of sick humor – possibly serving as a counter-discourse to the official, mediatized narratives of negative news.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1003/2017, interní kód MU

Název: Profilace výzkumných zaměření v anglofonní lingvistické a literární vědě III (Akronym: PROVYZAN III)

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Profilace výzkumných zaměření v anglofonní lingvistické a literární vědě III, DO R. 2020_Kategorie A - Specifický výzkum - Studentské výzkumné projekty

Citovat

CHOVANEC, Jan. Early Titanic Jokes : A disaster for the theory of disaster jokes? In 30th ISHS Conference - Humour : Positively (?) Transforming, 25-29 June 2018, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia. 2018.

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CHOVANEC, Jan. Early Titanic Jokes : A disaster for the theory of disaster jokes? In \textit{30th ISHS Conference - Humour : Positively (?) Transforming, 25-29 June 2018, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia}. 2018.

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