title: April Fools’ day news — still funny?
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Brzozowska, Dorota
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Chłopicki, Władysław
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-09-09T11:01:03Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-09-09T11:01:03Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Brzozowska, D., Chłopicki, W. (2020). April Fools’ day news — still funny? Media Linguistics, 7 (2), 184–192.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu22.2020.203
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/19334
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The long tradition of joking connected with the first day of April seems to be dying out in the
  era of fake news and scary headlines published every day. The aim of the article is to show the
  status of April Fools’ Day jokes in the Polish and English language context on the example of
  the material published on a single topic — swallowing inedible objects. In order to develop the
  methodology of analysis of humour in the news, it is useful to take into account the notion of
  incongruity, whether it is appropriate incongruity, background and foreground incongruities or
  various levels of meta-scripts. In order to discuss the collected material, it seems necessary to
  specify what kind of incongruities are involved as well as analyse the style of the stories in order
  to identify the intended message. The irrational behaviour of the stories’ protagonists seems to
  point the readers in the direction of a comic reading, but the stories are accompanied by pictures
  and even videos which aim at proving their credibility. The analysis of the selected examples
  points to the presence of incongruities, which are enhanced by colloquialisms as well as quasipunch lines. Some news published on the first day of April look like jokes, but do not end with
  the traditional April Fool punch line, while some others are similarly strange, although they are
  published on different occasions. Thus it is not easy to differentiate serious from non-serious
  news. The appearance of daily news with incongruous content could also be seen in a broader
  context as one of the elements of the trend towards “weirdization” of public discourse.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Media Linguistics;Volume 7; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: humour
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: discourse
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: news
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: media
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: eating disorders
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: April Fools’ day news — still funny?
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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