出版社：Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies
摘要：There is a well-known saying that goes “The criminal always returns to the crime scene” and implies that people (whether criminals or not) return to a place, an act, an experience important to them, either to remember and relive the “good old days” or to commit the same “crime”, or both. Remembering and reviving our “criminal” past, we thus return to political humour research after our first edited volume (Tsakona & Popa 2011b). The first reason for our return was the kind invitation of the organisers of the 2012 ISHS Conference, in Krakow, Poland, to put together a panel on political humour. The second reason was the participants of the panel and their contributions. It seemed that research on political humour continued (and continues) to attract several scholars coming from diverse theoretical and methodological backgrounds and offering new, refreshing insights on the political dimensions of humour. We consider it worth mentioning here that, if our panel at the conference consisted of 12 papers, these papers were less than half of the papers on political humour presented in the whole conference. A close look at the conference schedule reveals that political jokes and cartoons, ethnic humour, political satire, and political entertainment appear to be among the most popular topics currently investigated by humour scholars.
