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Iranian Political Satirists: Experience and motivation in the contemporary eraMahmud Farjami
[Topics in Humor Research 5] 2017
► pp. 100–121
Mahmud Farjami
[Topics in Humor Research 5] 2017
► pp. 100–121
Chapter 5A conceptual and theoretical framework
Article outline
- Conceptualizing humor and satire
- Persian satire or tanz
- Analyzing satire: Functions, forms and components
- Satirists and political satire
- The motivations of satirists
- Theoretical background for the study of humor and satire
- Superiority theory
- Relief theory
- Incongruity theory
- Integrating relevant theories
- Applying a theoretical framework to satirists’ motivations
