Siedlce, Poland
2nd Annual Siedlce Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature
Humorousness/Seriousness Dichotomy in Language, Culture and Literature
PROGRAMME,
Friday, 28th April 2017
8.30 - 8.50
Registration, coffee (University Head Office, 2 Konarski St., Siedlce, ground floor)
8.50 - 9.00
Official opening
9.00-9.45
Plenary Lecture
Chair: Prof. Edward
Colerick
9.45-10.00 – DISCUSSION
10.00-10.45 Plenary Lecture
Chair: Prof. Edward
Colerick
10.45-11.00 - DISCUSSION
11.00-11.15 – COFFEE BREAK
Prof. Francisco Yus
(University of Alicante, Spain)
The Pragmatic Story of a Stand-up Story
Prof. Ewa Łuczak
(University of Warsaw)
“We think too much and feel too little”: Charlie Chaplin’s Anti- Eugenic Visionary Humor
11.15 - 12.45– PARALLEL SESSIONS
Chair: J. Kolbusz-Buda, PhD
11.1511.45
11.4512.15
Chair: O. Blashkiv, PhD
Humour as a means
Humour/Seriousness as a form
of cultural, social, political criticism and/or reaction
Prof. Agnieszka Piskorska
Kamil Chrzczonowicz, MA
(University of Warsaw)
(University of Warsaw)
Humor as a means of communicating serious messages
Comedians as Public Thinkers: The Debate about the role
of humor/irony in the American public discourse
Magdalena Wieczorek, MA
Noël Vicens Boileau, MA
(Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities)
(University of Balearic Islands)
Relevance in sitcom discourse: the viewer’s perspective
12.1512.45
The seriousness of humour
Iwona Świątczak-Wasilewska, PhD
Agnieszka Wróbel, MA
(Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities)
Humour in news headlines and noticeboard messages in the eyes of
Polish EFL students
(Siedlce University of Natural Sciences
and Humanities)
Acting Presidential in the Age of Alternative Facts
12.45-14.15 LUNCH BREAK
Chair: I. Świątczak-Wasilewska, PhD
Humor at the intersection of genres
14.1514.45
14.4515.15
15.1515.45
Prof. Olga Antsyferova
(Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and
Humanities)
Humor as a strategy and resource
Mark Tardi, MA
(University of Łódź)
Self-parody in Edgar Allan Poe: Crossing
boundaries between “Dark Fiction” and burlesque
“Foodstuffs for the food chain dressed
in light”: On Lisa Jarnot's animal
ethics
Chair: M. Wieczorek, MA
Humor across cultures and time
Alicja Banczyk, MA
(Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
Is the medieval sense of humor still funny?
Comic scenes in the chansons de geste
Magdalena Sawa, PhD
Sergio Garcia-Rodriguez, MA
Alicja Bemben, MA
(The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin)
(University of Balearic Islands)
(University of Bielsko-Biała)
Is a parody of a parody serious or humorous?
The case of W. A. Mozart's opera Cosi fan tutte
and Gabriel Jospiovic's novel Making Mistakes
Descartes' Mockery of Pyrrhonian
Scepticism: the Cartesian Hyberbolic
Doubt
From Child-like Humorousness to Scientific
Seriousness and beyond
Marlena Hetman, MA
Emma Oki, PhD
Rosemary Reader, MA
(Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń)
(SWPS University of Social Sciences and
Humanities)
(Kyushu University, Japan)
Should I cry or should I laugh now? Tears of joy
and sorrow in Agnieszka Holland's 2017 Spoor
15.4516.15
Chair: Prof. E. Colerick
Emilia Leszczyńska,MA
(Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń)
Humorousness in Contemporary Asian
American Comics: An overview of (non/)
verbal stylistic techniques
Nathanael Pacheco, MA and Pablo
Vera, MA
A comparison of the Interpretation of British
Humor by British and Japanese People
Thuy Hien Le, MA
(University of Naples "L'Orientale", Italy)
(University of Balearic Islands)
Comedy of zombies: Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM, HUMOUR… AND
and Prejudice and Zombies
PLATO’S LOUD LAUGH
Interpreting the absence of Plato in his
dialogues as a great philosophical joke
.
Translating Humorous Literature from
Vietnamese into Italian
16.15-16.30 COFFEE BREAK
Chair: A. Wróbel, MA
16.3017.00
Chair: O. Blashkiv, PhD
Humor in children's fiction
Humor and Pragmatics
Anna Fornalczyk-Lipska, PhD
(University of Warsaw)
(University of Balearic Islands)
„A wiecie, że w afrykańskich domach słonie i zebry wyjadają
z lodówki banany?” Humour and Seriousness in Polish children’s
fiction about ethic and cultural minorities.
17.0017.30
Andres Jaume, PhD
Semantics and pragmatics as a form of life. A case study of
Ramon J. Sender's La thesis de Nancy
Eivind Karlsson, MA
Murad Mohammad Al Kayed, MA
(Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway)
(Al Balqa Applied University, Ajloun University College, Ajloun,
Jordan)
Winnie the pragmatist – humor based on communicative language skills
An Analysis of Jordanian Jokes: A pragmatic study
17.3018.00
Prof. Edward Colerick
Malgorzata Tyrka, MA
(Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities)
The Empowerment of Humor: From Dahl to Horrid Henry
(Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
Unfunny funniness in the light of Gricean model
18.00 CLOSING OF THE CONFERENCE