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Critical Affects: Laughter As Inquiry In First-Year Writing Courses, Nicholas James Learned
Critical Affects: Laughter As Inquiry In First-Year Writing Courses, Nicholas James Learned
Theses and Dissertations
ABSTRACT
CRITICAL AFFECTS: LAUGHTER AS INQUIRY IN FIRST-YEAR WRITING COURSES
by
Nicholas J. Learned
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2015
Under the Supervision of Professor Dennis Lynch
In this dissertation, I work to rethink our current approaches to teaching critical thinking and writing in attempt to collapse the distance between the critical/rhetorical methods we teach in Rhetoric and Composition and the ways students interact rhetorically in their everyday lives. I am prompted to this line of inquiry by a problem I note in both theory and practice: the critical methods we teach in our writing courses rarely translate to real-world behaviors, …
Deconstructing Dominant Discourse Using Self-Deprecating Humor: A Discourse Analysis Of A Consulting With Japanese Female About Hikikomori And Neet, Hatsuho Ayashiro
Deconstructing Dominant Discourse Using Self-Deprecating Humor: A Discourse Analysis Of A Consulting With Japanese Female About Hikikomori And Neet, Hatsuho Ayashiro
Journal of Critical Issues in Educational Practice
This study examines how dominant discourses are deconstructed in a consulting, particularly focusing on self-deprecating humor. Data were collected from a session with a Japanese client whose son was in hikikomori or NEET state, and a transcript of the session was analyzed using positioning theory. Examining several extracts shows how the client’s positioning of her son and herself is influenced by some dominant discourses, such as deficit discourse and so on. These dominant discourses are deconstructed by self-deprecating humor, because such ironical self-positioning makes these discourses visible, and defeats the self made by society. We discuss the findings with the …
The Grizzly, April 1, 2015, Rachel Brown, Ayesha Contractor, Joshua Hoffman, Blaise Laramee, Maddie Mathay, Sophie Snapp, Lisa Abraham, Amanda Cornwell, Olivia Z. Schultz, Bryce Pinkerton, Jonathan Vander Lugt
The Grizzly, April 1, 2015, Rachel Brown, Ayesha Contractor, Joshua Hoffman, Blaise Laramee, Maddie Mathay, Sophie Snapp, Lisa Abraham, Amanda Cornwell, Olivia Z. Schultz, Bryce Pinkerton, Jonathan Vander Lugt
Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present
UC Stand Plans New Multi-Gender Fashion Show • Woodstock Receives Award • Experiences from Model UN • Ursinus Alum is Succeeding in the Business World • Women and Minorities on Wikipedia Examined • Opinion: The Challenges of Transferring to Ursinus • Tennis Teams Ace Early Slate
About English-Language Scholarship On Humor In Ancient Chinese Literature, Peina Zhuang, Lei Cheng
About English-Language Scholarship On Humor In Ancient Chinese Literature, Peina Zhuang, Lei Cheng
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In their article "About English-language Scholarship on Humor in Ancient Chinese Literature" Peina Zhuang and Lei Cheng present an overview of scholarship by English-language Sinologists on humor. Zhuang and Cheng argue that while English-language scholars have played a path-breaking role in making prominent an important aspect of ancient Chinese literature, their studies also display weaknesses including questionable choices of source material, decontextualized analysis, or even mistranslation. They posit that the study of humor in ancient Chinese literature ought to be performed in a contextual perspective including linguistics, literary history, society, politics, etc.
Laughing Out Loud: Humor Usage In Young Childhood Classrooms, Mary Frances Rossi
Laughing Out Loud: Humor Usage In Young Childhood Classrooms, Mary Frances Rossi
Honors Theses and Capstones
The purpose of this honors thesis is to document the types of humorous occurrences among 2-3-yearold children and then to describe the relationship between children’s humor during circle time and teacher-child interactions, noting how teachers respond to these humorous occurrences. I conducted my observations at the Child Study Development Center in the Nursery II classroom, which included one head teacher and 19 children. I audiotaped and photographed my observations and took notes on two tables. One table included recording linguistic humor and non-linguistic humor occurrences, or humor involving words and humor involving movement, and the other table included teacher responses …