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Publication details [#65986]

Kersten, Holger. 2019. America’s faith in the laugh resistance – popular beliefs about political humor in the 2016 presidential elections. Humor 32 (2) : 299–316.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
aggression | comedy | election manifesto | function | humor | journalese | laughter | political system | television
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This paper examines how comedians, journalists and other contemporary observers have limned and commented on the role and functions of humor and comedy with reference to the Trump phenomenon in the context of the 2016 presidential elections and its aftermath.