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Despite rising interests in the manifestations of second language (L2) interactional competence (IC) in online language learning activities (e.g., Balaman & Sert, 2017a, 2017b), participants' interactional practices for managing epistemic stances in online searches remains largely unexplored. This paper examines how an intermediate-level learner of English jointly managed epistemics with a tutor in a text-and-voice teleconference session designed as a conversation-for-learning. The analysis focuses on web search sequences occasioned by emergent epistemic asymmetries in the ongoing talk, and how the participants leveraged resources to negotiate knowledge positions and display affiliation during online searches. Findings reveal that epistemic stance management is a prominent aspect of the IC involved in online search sequences. For example, during an online search, the tutee demonstrates his IC by citing and attributing responsibility to the source in response to epistemic primacy challenges. In the process, he also utilised affiliative resources such as laughter and a term of endearment to delicately manage disaffiliation. By focusing on the management of epistemic stances during online searches, this study informs the use of online searches in L2 learning activities to foster opportunities to perform stance-taking practices as part of the learner's IC.

This case study presents our findings regarding a Project-Based Learning Course, where we applied neuroscience concepts to make the learning experience more effective. The course, which followed a combination of project-based learning and flipped classroom approaches, was delivered during the first semester of 2020, to 20 graduate students of the Faculty of Education of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. We explain the course design, curriculum, and online components. We collected data from course questionnaires and analyzed them qualitatively. We found that the course fostered long-lasting learning, by allowing the students to connect theory and practice, by providing knowledge-sharing opportunities and by promoting the retrieval of the content learned. We also found that course design allowed continuous improvement of course, learning environment and activities, that also enhanced the learning experience. Our findings also suggested that the usage of flipped-classroom concepts improves the efficacy of the online meetings. Finally, comic strips' usage brought humor to class, helped the students fix content, and contributed to reducing the stress that the students were facing.

This study contributes to research in the field of phonology of sign languages, focusing on the occurrence of assimilation of signs. The objective of the study is to analyze assimilation cases present in the text genre "joke" in Brazilian Sign Language (Libras), as well as influences of the immediate context on their occurrence. We understand that assimilation occurs when one unit takes features from another unit next to it (Liddell and Johnson 1989; Valli et al. 2011; Resende 2012). Thus, four jokes were selected from the YouTube video platform and signs that show the process of assimilation were selected to constitute our corpus. The data were analyzed qualitatively. Based on the corpus and on the analyses, we found that the tendency, in the four jokes in Libras that we investigated, is that one-hand signs affect one-hand signs in a progressive and strong way. Therefore, we conclude that it is possible to hypothesize that assimilation occurs as a principle of linguistic economy, considering that the sign unit that is assimilated into the other would be very distant from the unit (previous or subsequent) of the sign, which would be antieconomic.

This article aims to show the different ethé of Our Lady of Aparecida represented in political cartoons. What justifies the analysis is that the images built for Our Lady by the cartoonists are unique and different from those commonly made by the faithful. The productions were broadcast on the day dedicated to the patron saint of Brazil, October 12th, 2022. On that date, politicians who were competing for the elections scheduled for that month were present at the Sanctuary. The candidates' attitude was seen as a campaign act. The press suggested this and exposed, more explicitly in political cartoons on the subject. This text considers two of them because they synthesize two frequent ethé in the analyzed drawings: the victim and the vigilante. The article articulates theoretical notions from comics, discourse, and humor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we undertake a Deleuzian theoretical perspective, which places humor on the tracks of the event and observes it as a line of flight that can lead the individual to enjoy in the sense of managing a joyful power, capable of making him find in himself a field of forces that move him towards what that philosopher calls becoming. As a singular human dimension, humor is a line of flight for the creation of other possible territories, based on counter-effectuation, which, in Deleuzian perspective, positions it in a libertarian vision of itself, of an opening to a new mode of existence. The territory is marked by lines of forces (molar, molecular and escape) and we need to observe the movement of these lines in its constitution. In "Tudo Pede Salvação" (2022), an original Italian drama and comedy series, distributed in Brazil by the Netflix streaming platform, through cartography, we can see that the character Gianluca counteracts through the use of humor, from three scenes: the arrival of the father in the psychiatric ward; the clash between Daniel and Gianluca; and, the kiss between Daniel and Gianluca in front of his father. Despite the non-acceptance of the family nucleus, Gianluca manages to make his stay in the hospital positive, resisting, freeing himself from a molar structure - a patriarchal and authoritarian family. It is in humor that Gialunga draws lines of escape that will open up the possibility of building a libertarian gay mode of existence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In today's multicultural environment, the influence of cultural orientations on humorous advertising outcomes is increasingly significant for researchers and practitioners. Drawing on a theoretical framework from culture dimensions and theories of humour in advertising, this research examines the moderating role of cultural orientation on the relationship between humour styles and consumers' attitudes towards humorous ads. Empirical results from studies conducted in Brazil, China and the United States show that uncertainty avoidance moderates the effect of cognition‐evoking humorous ads on consumers' responses to the ads, while individualism–collectivism moderates the effect of affect‐evoking humorous ads on these responses. Specifically, consumers from countries with high uncertainty avoidance (e.g., Brazil) have more favourable attitudes towards and perceive greater humour from cognition‐evoking humorous ads with closure than those from countries with low uncertainty avoidance (e.g., China, United States). In addition, consumers from collectivist countries (e.g., China, Brazil) have more favourable attitudes towards and perceive greater humour from affect‐evoking humorous ads with closure than do those from individualist countries (e.g., United States). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article is a study of political criticism of the Língua de Trapo and Premeditando o Breque songs, performed through humor. Inserted in the underground field of the early 1980s, and, therefore, relatively distant from the rules imposed by the great music market in Brazil, these two groups, belonging to the so-called Vanguarda Paulista, created a critical counterpoint to the musical production of their time. Thus, by analyzing some of their songs, this study seeks to highlight some aspects of humor as a procedure of cultural and political criticism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A confirmatory analysis was performed to validate the Questionnaire on the Health Staff's Perceptions Regarding Doutores da Alegria's Intervention, a 40-item instrument designed to assess pediatric staff's perceptions regarding the effects of Doutores da Alegria, a Brazilian hospital clowning professional organization. Eight dimensions were evaluated: the permanence of Doutores da Alegria's interventions; Doutores da Alegria's intrapersonal and interpersonal effects on their relation to health staff; themselves; staff–children; and staff–family relationships; as well as their effect on staff's cultural development; children's relation to their own disease; and families' attitude regarding their child's condition. In all, 567 health professionals from 13 Brazilian hospitals participated. The instrument's good psychometric features are acknowledged. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To investigate the impact of two weeks of detraining in aerobic capacity and the psychobiological responses of runners, 16 adult volunteers were recruited. After clinical assessment, the volunteers were submitted to body composition evaluate, blood collection, maximum cardiopulmonary exercise test and constant load test in ventilatory threshold intensity 1 (VT-1), and answered psychobiological questionnaires to evaluate anxiety, mood profile and exercise dependence. A week after these tests, the volunteers were submitted to a detraining period sustained by two weeks. At the end of this period, the volunteers answers the psychobiological battery again and the cardiopulmonary exercise test on VT-I intensity was repeated. Psychobiological tests were applied again after the completion of the exercise. The results revealed that the detraining period caused a decrease in oxygen consumption and ventilation at 9.1 and 8.6%, respectively, furthermore, the detraining increased negative mood symptoms as anxiety, stress, depression, anger-hostility and decreased vigor. After the exercise, a relief of negative mood symptoms and increased of vigor was observed. We conclude that the interruption of training for a short period of two weeks causes a decrease in aerobic capacity and promote psychobiological alterations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The university has now shown as a place of intellectual growth, building prospects and social life. Current studies show that humor and social skills are the key to an effective communication for professional growth and psychological well-being of individual and group. The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between social skills and mood in college students. Participated 167 students, that filled the sense of Humor Scale Situational and the Social Skills Inventory. The results showed that the humor is associated with social skills and that "humor with friends and colleagues" can be considered a predictor of some factors of social skills. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: The encryption theory of humor (Flamson & Barrett, 2008) proposes that one of the means by which people develop their social networks is assortment with the most compatible peers by signaling similarity in locally variable personal features through humor. Here we present experimental and observational evidence obtained on a collective farm in rural Brazil, where participants were presented with high- and low-encryption versions of jokes after assessing their prior knowledge, and completed a photo-sorting task to determine the structure of their social networks. These results, replicating previous findings using online surveys, demonstrated a significant effect of prior knowledge and some of the predicted interactions between prior knowledge and encryption level, as well as a small but significant effect of social closeness on similarity in joke ratings. Taken together, these findings support the hypotheses that (a) the cognitive processing of humor relies on an encryption–decryption process, (b) similarity in humor preferences reflects similarities in those cognitive processes and (c) that similarity plays a role in real-world social assortment. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

In Noel Rosa's humorous works, particularly in songs in which he comments on his behavior, the poetic voice that emerges is the one of the sambista in tension with some system of values; as a rule, his kind of enunciation evokes some opposition to the positive values attributed to formal employment. This article -- through the analysis of two of his songs, Filosofia and Conversa de botequim, and through the recurring approach of dissimulation -- discusses the idea that the composer elicits the need for a social mask to survive in society either criticizing it or deriding it. In this sense, the Noelian work is affiliated to the romantic irony which confronted bourgeois values as a recurrent discursive strategy. The analysis follows a Bakhtinian enunciative perspective, which ideologically and aesthetically maps the lyric voice of the two songs, that is, how they were composed, with what voices they dialog in opposition to or in conjunction with those values. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study of conversational humor has received relatively little empirical attention with almost no examinations of the role of vocal signals in spontaneous humor production. Here we report an analysis of spontaneous humorous speech in a rural Brazilian collective farm. The sample was collected over the course of ethnographic fieldwork in northeastern Brazil, and is drawn specifically from the monthly communal business meetings conducted in Portuguese. Our analyses focused on humorous utterances identified by the subsequent presence of laughter. Acoustic features of these utterances were compared to non-humorous utterances by the same speakers of similar length and immediately preceding them to look for prosodic contrasts. This corpus provided a unique opportunity for examining the way people mark their humorous productions in a non-humorous environment. Contrary to the notion that speakers must mark their production of humor in order to facilitate audience understanding, no significant marking of a joking “frame” was detected across a range of acoustic dimensions. The only consistent difference — that the set-up and punch line segments were louder than baseline speech before it — does not well support a marking hypothesis and more likely reflects speaker adjustments to the acoustic conditions of the meeting hall. We present these data from the perspective of the encryption theory of humor that predicts speakers will not generally mark spontaneous, conversational humor in most contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study reflects on how the relations between Power and resisting forces act in the building of an imaginary that adds news meanings to language. Since language study is ideological, in this case a political issue, and that changes occur as determined by social laws and practices, here discourses by journalists that were published in the newspaper O Pasquim (1969 and 1970) are analyzed. As it was a newspaper, which opposed the dictatorial government, our initial question was: What effect such discourses would have produced, considering that it opposed the practices by the military government by means of humor? By using a symbolic writing, humor cheats and pervades the structure of the worked language in writing manuals used by the Brazilian press during the Médici government. At the same time, the journalistic text, even if resulting from a specialized writing practice, institutionalized by writing manuals, can be thought of as a space for resistance, mistakes and subjectivities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article discusses the works of the Brazilian cartoonist Eduardo de Araújo Guerra, from the newspaper "Cabrion", published in the city of Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, in the 19th century. The author focuses on the artist's activities, especially those dealing with cartoons addressed to other journalists.

In this article, the author describes somber scenes that have been extracted from Brazilian reality. Some of the elements that compose these scenes have been analyzed as to their relation with contemporaneity and psychoanalytic topics of interest: perversion, helplessness, pain, life instinct, death instinct, humor and indifference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The description of a very original experience of health education in a region of Amazonia, Brasil (based on the utilization of techniques of population theater) is the occasion for a reflection on the possibilities and on the opportunity of adopting also for the nursing practice of western countries methodologically innovative approaches, which could allow a caring attention oriented not only to the problem of assistance, but more basically to the cultural components of the needs and expectations of defined populations.