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July 11                Friday  2003
9:30 AM

Plenary 
Lawrence Mintz

Recital Hall 
Chicago’s Mr. Dooley: The humorist as commonsense philosopher

10:30 AM - Noon                      Morning Breakout Sessions   
SU 214 SU 217 SU 003 SU 215

Chair: W. Stone

 Chair: S. Attardo Chair:  M. Shappeck Workshop
Y. Liberman

The Divine Comedy of the Rabbi of Berditchev

I. Ermida

Shaded humor in black-and-white classics: Portuguese film comedies of the 50’s

P. O’Connor

Copi  (the Gy international Argentine)

A. L. Franzini

How to develop a child’s sense of humor
J. R. Heller

Ironic humor in Grace Paley’s The Loudest Voice

A. Trester and L. J. Wright

Linguistic structures’ effect on humor in narratives of personal experience

D. Nieblyski

Gender wars and the comic deconstruction of Masculinity in Films by Latin Women: 1970-90’s

 


Continued
J. Stavick

Getting the joke: a linguistic analysis of humor in novels of Graham Greene and George Orwell

O. Elkommos

A pragma-stylistic humor analysis of the longer narrative Egyptian jokes

D. W. Bird

A Friendly Warning to the Letrado:  Bustos Domecq and the Praise of Folly 		Continued
Noon – 1:30 PM                       Lunch   

 

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM                  Afternoon Breakout Session I  
SU 214 SU 217 SU 003

Chair: L.J. Wright

 Chair: P. Giaimo Chair: R. Giora
(Panel:  Irony)
G. Kuipers

The use of functionalist explanations of humor – or: the relationship between form and function in humor theory

C. Eklund

Tripartite humor in comics: visual, verbal and mixed

 

R. Giora, O. Fein, J. Ganzi and N. A. Levi

"He is a little…somewhat… not exceptionally bright" On negation as mitigation: the case of irony

 

D. Casadonte

Conditional/Counterfactual access points and the structure of humor

V. Kazanevsky

The relation betwen the tyrants of former Soviet Union and caricaturists 		H. L. Colston

Why is verbal irony funny?

 

A. Kozintsev

Humor: before and after irony

 

   A.N. Katz

Is humor a constraint in the comprehension of irony?

3:00 PM – 3:30 PM                      Break   

 

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM           Afternoon Breakout Session II   
SU 214 SU 217 SU 003

Chair: A. P. Nilsen

 Chair: J. Morreall
 		Chair:  R. Giora
D. L. F. Nilsen

Irony as edgy humor part I

E. Kasapi

Humor in international advertising campaigns: the view of British advertising practitioners

 

P. M. Pexman and M. Harris

The humor function of verbal irony: perceptions of children and adults

 

A. P.  Nilsen

Irony as edgy humor part II

B. L. Gunning

Using focus groups to study the use of humor

 

S. Attardo

Two factors in the production of irony: familiarity and aggression

 

R. J. Graewe

Erich Segal, Aristophanes and Grumpy Old Men


W. L. Ventis and K. Higgins

Impact of personality variables on desensitizing effects of humor in advertising

 

Discussion
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM    Plenary Recital Hall
    Janet Holmes 'Did anyone feel disempowered by that?' Humor and leadership style  - is there a connection?

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