Vol. 1, Issue 1
Israeli Journal of Humor Research - An International Journal
Vol. 1, Issue No. 1, 2012
Editorial
The Inaugural Issue
Ephraim Nissan, London, and Arie Sover, Ashkelon 1
Regular Articles
PRAGMATICS
Garden paths, red lights and crossroads: On finding our way to understanding
the cognitive mechanisms underlying jokes.
Marta Dynel, Lódź 6
Other Keywords: Jokes: Taxonomy; Incongruity-resolution mechanisms; Garden paths; Red lights
kind of jokes; Crossroads kind of jokes;
2011: The Sesquicentennial of the Birth of America's Top Hebrew Humorist
The sweat of the (low) brow: New York Immigrant life in Gerson Rosenzweig's
satire. Facets of his Talmudic parody Tractate America.
Ephraim Nissan, London 29
Other Keywords: Jewish studies; Pastiche; Parody; Satire; Social conditions (immigrants); Trade
union, strikes, immigrants labor. America (perception); America (discovery)
Extreme fear of being laughed at: components of gelotophobia.
Tracey Platt, Willibald Ruch, Jennifer Hofmann, and René T. Proyer, Zurich 86
Other Keywords: Clinical psychology; Phobia
A tentative evaluation of the spread of humor studies among journals in other domains.
Ephraim Nissan, London 107
Studies in Political Humor, edited by Villy Tsakona and Diana Elena Popa.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2011
Christie Davies, England 185