Humour in Intercultural Communication (2025/2026: Periode 2)

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Cursusdoel

After completion of the course the students:

1. have gained an advanced understanding of the key concepts of humour theory and are able to apply these to relevant typologies, strategies, and pedagogies of humour and their translation and reception in different social, ethnic, and religious contexts.

2. have learned to formulate a research question, find relevant sources, and select a pertinent approach.

3. are able to investigate cases of humour from both an intercultural and linguistic perspective (based on relevant scholarship, comparative analysis and close reading of primary sources in different media, and in the modern languages of their study [Dutch, German, French, Italian, and Spanish]).

Vakinhoudelijk

Humour is a slippery beast. It can bring people together, break the ice, and increase empathy, but it can equally mark division, cause offence, trigger aggression. Humour often implies the transgression of a (linguistic, social, cultural etc.) norm, thus revealing culturally determined assumptions on the Other. How does this work? In this Crossing Borders course we will explore these diverse forms and functions of humour by means of intercultural and linguistic perspectives. This will allow us to analyse a range of cases, including humour as a marker of social, ethnic or religious identity, as a pragmatic or discursive phenomenon, or as a tradition with historical roots. 
To understand how the uses and perceptions of humour vary across cultures, students will study humour in its different manifestations (carnivalesque, irony, parody, etc.) from a variety of perspectives, ranging from intercultural communication to literary studies, and from media studies, (post)colonial studies, anthropology, imagology, to discourse analysis and linguistics. Students will review the uses and perceptions of humour in media coverage of topical issues, advertisements and commercials, as well as in (historical) literature, film, comedies, podcasts, comics, cartoons, graphic novels, websites, and other mediums.

Aanvullende informatie

This is the second course of the specialisation 'Crossing Borders'.

Please note this course is only open to students from BA German, French, Italian, Dutch and Spanish Language and Culture.

Werkvormen

Hoor/werkcollege

Hoor/werkcollege 1

Toetsing

Portfolio

Verplicht | Weging 60% | Minimum cijfer 5,0 | ECTS 4,5

Schriftelijke toets

Verplicht | Weging 40% | Minimum cijfer 5,0 | ECTS 3

Ingangseisen en voorkennis

Ingangseisen

Er is geen informatie over verplichte ingangseisen bekend.

Voorkennis

Command of English at exit-level of Dutch VWO (level B2 for all skills as described in the Common European Framework of Reference); Language proficiency at the level of a 2nd year student in the BA Nederlandse, Franse, Duitse, Italiaanse or Spaanse Taal en Cultuur. Language and culture-specific knowledge and skills in linguistics, literature and culture as acquired in the core profiles of the BA Nederlandse, Franse, Duitse, Italiaanse or Spaanse Taal en Cultuur.

Voertalen

  • Engels

Cursusmomenten

Tentamens

Er is geen tentamenrooster beschikbaar voor deze cursus

Verplicht materiaal

Er is geen informatie over de verplichte literatuur bekend


Aanbevolen materiaal

  • BOEK
    Salvatore Attardo (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humour (New York: Routledge, 2017), available online via UL

Coördinator

prof. dr. A.S.Q. Visser a.s.q.visser@uu.nl

Docenten

M.G. Steffens m.g.steffens@uu.nl
prof. dr. A.S.Q. Visser a.s.q.visser@uu.nl

Inschrijving

Let op: deze cursus is niet toegankelijk voor studenten van andere faculteiten, bijvakkers mogen zich dus niet inschrijven.

Inschrijving
Van maandag 2 juni 2025 tot en met vrijdag 20 juni 2025

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