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The semiology of humour: developing the “counter-sign” model
European Journal of Humour Research. 2021. Vol. 9. No. 2. P. 7–25.
Borodenko M., Petrovskiy V.
A semiology-based approach to understanding humour is being developed and an interpretation of humour as a “counter-sign,” a two-faced sign within the space of conventionality, is put forward. The range of core attributes to interpret the phenomenon of humour is determined. The concepts of the “frame of significance,” “conventionality,” and “meta-communicative marker of conventionality” are elaborated. The general definition of humour is being formulated as a “sign-based identification of non-identifiable signs within the space of conventionality.” An outline is put forward to enable the formal distinction between satire, humour, irony, and jokes. The following questions are addressed: “Why does that which is funny cease to be so if it is repeated many times?”, “Why can the terrifying become funny when recollected?” “Why is the state of bewilderment not always funny but returning to it in one’s thoughts triggers laughter?”
Medushevsky A. N., Liberal.ru 2026
The Liberal Mission Foundation continues to introduce readers to new concepts of democracy and relevant publications. This discussion focuses on the challenges facing democracy in the era of globalization, as addressed in two recent books: *The Backsliders: Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies* by S.C. Stokes (2025) and *Critical Theories and the Postsocialist Challenge: Race, ...
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Medushevsky A. N., Вопросы теоретической экономики 2026 № 2 С. 146–164
It is generally accepted that the basis of social and legal stability in any society is a consensus on vir tue — the fundamental values of proper behavior, ways of maintaining and reproducing them. And, conversely, the destruction of this consensus is a sign of the loss of stability and divergence of positions of social ...
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Vlasenko D., Saranskaia I., Zakharov D., European Physical Journal: Special Topics 2026 P. 1–16
Hypergraphs provide a natural framework for representing neurophysiological interactions distributed across sets of sensors. A key methodological question is how hyperedges should be defined from frequency-resolved electroencephalography/magnetoencephalography (EEG/MEG) data. We demonstrate a construction strategy in which hyperedges are obtained from canonical coherence (caCOH), an extension of coherence that estimates coupling between multidimensional signal spaces. To ...
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Diachkova M., Lelik V., Dorofeeva S. et al., Language Resources and Evaluation 2026 Vol. 60 Article 68
This article presents the Russian Language-Monolingual corpus (RusLan-M, v.1.0), a longitudinal multimedia collection of early child speech from two Russian-speaking monolingual children: Tosya (ages 0;10–3;10, 246 recordings) and Yasha (ages 1;04–3;00, 42 recordings). The corpus consists of approximately 41 h (2,454 min.) of video recordings and 35,386 child utterances, available with transcriptions in the CHAT ...
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Vasilieva E., Trifonova A., Bultseva M. A., Current Psychology 2026 Vol. 45 Article 1320
The current exploratory study aims to reveal identity gaps and interpersonal communication strategies used by Russians to overcome social identity crises. Based on previous research, we assume that many Russians who live both in Russia and abroad face ethnic and national identity threats and experience different social identity crises due to recent geopolitical events. This ...
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Ulgen H., Journal of International Students 2026 Vol. 16 No. 17 P. 283–312
This study reports a secondary analysis of phenomenologically informed, semistructured interviews with 15 Turkish undergraduate and graduate students at three universities in Moscow and examines how peer networks function beyond emotional buffering to support academic engagement and institutional navigation in Russian–medium higher education. Drawing on social support theory, communities of practice, and community cultural wealth ...
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A. Radygina, S. Kulikova, Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2025 Vol. 95 No. 6 P. 963–970
Musical training has a significant impact on brain organization, leading to functional and structural
adaptations that enhance auditory, visual, motor, and cognitive processes. This study investigates how
extensive musical training shapes functional brain connectivity by comparing professional musicians and
non-musicians. Using EEG phase-locking value (PLV) analysis, we examined neural synchronization across
alpha, beta, and gamma frequency ranges during music ...
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Zolotareva A., Социальные науки и детство 2026 Т. 7 № 2 С. 66–77
Context and relevance. Early detection of anxiety and depression symptoms is a priority task for the child and adolescent mental health system. As Russian practice traditionally relies on separate instruments, assessing anxiety and depression in isolation, there is a need for integrated instruments. Objective. To examine the factor structure of the Russian version of the ...
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Iskakova B., Kleinlein E. V., Prisyazhniuk D. et al., European Journal of Education 2026 Vol. 61 No. 3 Article e70810
This study examines pre-service teachers' (PSTs) attitudes towards inclusive education in Germany and Russia and investigates how they relate to teacher training curricula and teacher educators' discourse. A mixed-methods design was used, including an online survey of PSTs (n = 460) with an open-ended question, curriculum review and exploratory interviews with university educators in both contexts. The ...
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Reznichenko S. I., Кияненко И. К., Nartova-Bochaver S. K. et al., Экспериментальная психология 2026 Т. 19 № 2 С. 10–28
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Context and relevance. In the context of accelerated urbanization and a growing disconnect from the natural
environment, there is increasing interest in biophilic attitudes — a system of stable views, beliefs, and
evaluations that reflect a person’s relationship with living nature and shape their psychological well-being and
environmentally responsible behavior. Existing tools for their measurement, such as the ...
Added: August 3, 2026
Krivoshchekov V., Gulevich O., Frontiers In Social Psychology 2026 Vol. 4
Precarious manhood theory (PMT) explains men's compensatory responses to masculinity threats in domains such as affect, aggression, risk-taking, dominance, and social attitudes. While recent meta-analytic evidence suggests that masculinity threat has a small-to-medium average effect, recent preregistered replication work has failed to reproduce some influential masculinity-threat effects in a large representative sample, raising questions about ...
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Hachaturova M. R., Safonova A., Экспериментальная психология 2026 Т. 19 № 2 С. 51–66
Context and relevance. The influence of the environment on psychological well-being has been studied in a wide variety of contexts, including workplaces, schools, healthcare facilities, and digital spaces. However, the psychological well-being of university faculty, particularly in relation to their connection to the university environment in the wide sense, remains virtually unrepresented in psychological research. ...
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Vasiliev F., Vasilieva E., Мир психологии. Научно-методический журнал 2026 № 2 (125) С. 113–126
This study examines how various team aspects influence their evaluation
of teamwork outcomes. The research was conducted on a targeted sample in Russian
organizations. Using structural equation modeling, three groups of factors were identified:
team aspects that affected cognitive evaluation, emotional evaluation of work, and satisfaction
with the work process (team reputation and commitment); team aspects that did not ...
Added: July 22, 2026
Грудников Н. С., Пастухова Е. Г., Психология и право 2026 Т. 16 № 2 С. 198–214
Context and relevance. Mediation is a widespread form of conflict resolution with its own unique principles. Restorative justice, as a new paradigm in criminal justice, utilizes mediation as a form of implementation while adapting it to its own core concepts. Objective. The study aims to identify the differences between the value foundations of classical and ...
Added: July 22, 2026
Natalia G. Milashchenko, Journal of Siberian Federal University. Series: Humanities & Social Sciences 2025 Vol. 18 No. 10 P. 1981–1991
This study explores the employment of intertextual elements in editorial cartoons. The purpose of this research is to compare and contrast the types of precedent phenomena that are used to create British and American political cartoons addressing immigration issues. To this end, the sample of 50 British and 50 American graphical texts published by quality ...
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Krongauz M., Критика и семиотика 2024 № 1 С. 112–137
The article describes the mechanisms of humor in small poetic genres that appeared on the Internet in the 2000s and were named pirozhok and poroshok. These are quatrains written in iambic tetrameter. There are no rhymes in pirozhok, but in poroshok the last line, truncated to 2 syllables, rhymes with the second. Poroshok as a ...
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Lifshits A., Менцин Ю. Л., Вестник Московского университета. Серия 8: История 2023 Т. 64 № 5 С. 94–107
There are many examples illustrating the wit of scientists, their penchant for jokes. One such example is the comic poem "The Song of the Refractor" by the Berlin student Benno Messow (1898), which imitates the famous poem "The Song of the Bell" by Friedrich Schiller. The text of this work, found in the archives of ...
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Kharina O., В кн.: Мир комиксов. Вып. 7: Изразцы, советский комикс, сёдзё-манга.: М., Екатеринбург: Фабрика комиксов : Кабинетный ученый, 2023. С. 411–422.
Юмор — это оружие человеческого разума против угнетения и неравенства. в современной Индии свобода самовыражения не всегда приветствуется, но смелая молодежь не сдерживается в критике действий правительства и угнетения прав женщин, а также мало защищенных слоев общества. сегодня комиксы противостоят невежеству и несправедливости. они затрагивают ряд острых тем: от гендерных вопросов до окружающей среды и ...
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Жиганова А. В., Laletina A., Социальные и гуманитарные науки на Дальнем Востоке 2021 Т. 18 № 1 С. 156–160
Обилие англицизмов в современном русском языке сопровождается усилением метаязыковой рефлексии обывателей во всех контекстах, в том числе юмористическом. В статье приводится анализ юмористических этюдов, в основе которых лежит столкновение «проглобальной» и «пролокальной» языковых идеологий. Несмотря на противопоставление этих точек зрения на развитие языка, их узнаваемость в юморе выполняет положительную консолидирующую и просветительскую функцию. ...
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Shepeleva S. A., В кн.: Сборник трудов 19-й международной конференции студентов и аспирантов «Медиа в современном мире. Молодые исследователи»Вып. 20.: СПб.: Институт «Высшая школа журналистики и массовых коммуникаций» федерального государственного бюджетного образовательного учреждения высшего профессионального образования «Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет», 2020.
В работе предпринята попытка определить мобилизационный потенциал политического юмора на современном российском телевидении при помощи критического дискурс-анализа. ...
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Kantor V., Вопросы литературы 2023 № 1 С. 12–32
Although he mentioned more than once that Tolstoy was his idol, Aldanov, driven by the force of circumstances and catastrophic dimensions of the contemporary historical process, appears to be closer to Dostoevsky, both in terms of theory and subject matter. Scholarly writings that concern Aldanov’s understanding of chance as a historical trigger are often tinged ...
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Манукян Я. А., Trofimova N., Научный диалог 2022 Т. 11 № 6 С. 218–234
Verbal means of reflecting the situation of the coronavirus pandemic through the prism of German humor are considered. The relevance of the study is due to the interest of modern language science in the study of discourses as a kind of markers of linguistic consciousness and speech behavior. The novelty of the study lies in the fact that German humorous ...
Added: December 11, 2022
Kurdybaylo D., Kurdybaylo I., ΣΧΟΛΗ. Ancient Philosophy and the Classical Tradition 2021 Vol. 15 No. 1 P. 53–63
“Socrates’ irony” is a well-known topos even for those readers who are far from ancient philosophy. Dialogues of Plato contain different modes of humour, from mild self-irony to quite sarcastic tones. Plato’s gods are ‘playful,’ they treat people as those were ‘playthings.’ The best way of mortals’ life is to play also, spending their time ...
Added: October 1, 2022
Zaides K., В кн.: Компьютерная лингвистика и вычислительные онтологии (Труды XX Международной объединенной конференции «Интернет и современное общество, IMS–2017)Вып. 1.: СПб.: Университет ИТМО, 2017. С. 46–56.
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