Early Titanic Jokes : A disaster for the theory of disaster jokes?

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Early Titanic Jokes : A disaster for the theory of disaster jokes?

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This paper challenges and revises Christie Davies’s theory of disaster jokes. Based on the discovery of several very early jokes on the Titanic disaster, all obtained from a contemporary Czech humoristic magazine, I suggest that Davies’ position that “there are no contemporary jokes” about pre-television disasters (2003: 17) is no longer tenable in view of the new data. Evidently, various forms of humor existed about current disasters even before the advent of television (and later the internet), which are otherwise considered as central to the production of sick humor and joke cycles on disaster events (cf. Ellis 2001; Kuipers 2002, 2005). While the lack of historical data makes it difficult to speculate on whether we can actually talk about “joke cycles”, the mere existence of contemporary Titanic jokes requires us to reconsider the privileged role of television, as propounded in Christie Davies’s model. Apparently, the mediatization of disaster news through early print media was quite sufficient to trigger the generation of sick humor – possibly serving as a counter-discourse to the official, mediatized narratives of negative news.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Early Titanic Jokes : A disaster for the theory of disaster jokes?

Popis výsledku anglicky

This paper challenges and revises Christie Davies’s theory of disaster jokes. Based on the discovery of several very early jokes on the Titanic disaster, all obtained from a contemporary Czech humoristic magazine, I suggest that Davies’ position that “there are no contemporary jokes” about pre-television disasters (2003: 17) is no longer tenable in view of the new data. Evidently, various forms of humor existed about current disasters even before the advent of television (and later the internet), which are otherwise considered as central to the production of sick humor and joke cycles on disaster events (cf. Ellis 2001; Kuipers 2002, 2005). While the lack of historical data makes it difficult to speculate on whether we can actually talk about “joke cycles”, the mere existence of contemporary Titanic jokes requires us to reconsider the privileged role of television, as propounded in Christie Davies’s model. Apparently, the mediatization of disaster news through early print media was quite sufficient to trigger the generation of sick humor – possibly serving as a counter-discourse to the official, mediatized narratives of negative news.

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O - Ostatní výsledky

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2018

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů