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From political commentary to semiotic play: Humour and the Královec/Kaliningrad meme

CHOVANEC, Jan

Basic information

Original name

From political commentary to semiotic play: Humour and the Královec/Kaliningrad meme

Authors

Edition

Fifth International Communication Styles Conference : Communication in Times of Permacrisis, 24-25 April 2023, Krakow, 2023

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60203 Linguistics

Country of publisher

Poland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords (in Czech)

memy; humor; analýza diskurzu; sociolingvistika; Blommaert; chronotop; Královec

Keywords in English

memes; humour; discourse analysis; sociolinguistics; Blommaert; chronotope; Kaliningrad

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 7/2/2024 13:30, Mgr. Jana Pelclová, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

The presentation documents a case study of politically oriented humour that emerged in the Czech Republic as a reaction to the staged referendums in several regions of Ukraine in September 2022 - the fake annexation of Kaliningrad. The presentation shows how that witty one-off reaction was taken up in the digital sphere by a number of users as a form of playful grassroots digital activism – a collective act of online political humour aimed to deconstruct the triggering event, and to criticize and delegitimize other countries’ claims to various territories. The data collected from the Czech internet over several months show the gradual trajectory of what I call the “Královec meme” from such an initial humorous commentary towards a fully memetic element.

Links

MUNI/A/1053/2022, interní kód MU
Name: Paradigms, strategies and developments - English linguistics and translation III
Investor: Masaryk University, Paradigms, strategies and developments - English linguistics and translation III