American jokes about Polish people

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Realizowany zdalnie

Course description

Students learn (on MSTeams) to seek (and possibly find) a grain of salt in (not neccessarily American) jokes about the Polish people or about the people from other ethnic groups. In that way they both learn to speak English and to watch the bahavior of Polish people around them (actually or on the internet). Reading texts by D.Brzozowska on the non-ethnic jokes they learn to find both the comic script, oppositions and the target in the jokes discussed. They are prepared to decide if a given joke says something true about its target.

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total hours: 15

total ECTS: 2

0,5 ECTS = 15hours of class time

0,5 ECTS = 10 hours of consultations

1 ECTS = 30 hours of preparation to classes

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contact with the teacher: apietryga@uni.opole.pl

Course description

Students learn to seek (and possibly find) a grain of salt in (not neccessarily American) jokes about the Polish people or about the people from other ethnic groups. In that way they both learn to speak English and to watch the bahavior of Polish people around them (actually or on the internet). Reading texts by D.Brzozowska on the non-ethnic jokes they learn to find both the comic script, oppositions and the target in the jokes discussed. They are prepared to decide if a given joke says something true about its target.

They also learn about what the joke possibly says about the ethnic group who launched a given joke.

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Course content:

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Forms of instruction:

ICT tools - MS Teams

lecture

presentation

discussion

Reading list:

W. Chłopicki and D. Brzozowska, 2017, "Polish highlander jokes and their targets", (in:) The European Journal of Humour Research, vol. 5, no 4, pp. 67-84.

D. Brzozowska, W.Chłopicki, "Te Chinese as tagets in Polish humorous discourse", [in:] Attardo, Salvatore & Victor Raskin. 1991. Script theory revis(it)ed: Joke similarity and joke representation model. Humor: International Journal of Humor Research, 4:3/4. 347–411.

D. Brzozowska, "Jokes about women in Poland"https://www.rastko.rs/filologija/stil/2003/20Brzozowska.pdf

D. Brzozowska "Family in Polish jokes" http://www.folklore.ee/pubte/eraamat/eestipoola/dorota.brzozowska.pdf

Jessica Milner Davis, "Humour and its cultural context. Introduction and overview", https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299781593_Humour_and_its_cultural_context

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299781593_Humour_and_its_cultural_context

polish-jokes-why-every-country-has-one-and-why-only-americans-joke-about-lawyers.html

europeanjournalofhumour.org/index.php/ejhr/article/download/241/europeanjournalofhumour.org/index.php/ejhr/article/download/241/pdf

htmlhttp://www.jokes4us.com/miscellaneousjokes/worldjokes/polandjokes.html

Otto, B.K. (2001). Fools are Everywhere: The Court Jester Around the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Additional readings:

Arons, D. (2012). Jokes and the Linguistic Mind. New York: Routledge

Davies, C. (2011a). Jokes and Targets. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Learning outcomes acc to PRK 2019

Knowledge

The student knows and understands:

1. the role of English as a cognitive means and a tool used for studying (k_W03)

2. basic facts regarding the literature of English-speaking countries (k_W11 )

Skills

The student can:

3. use arguments and formulate logical conclusions based on studies of other authors (k_U03)

Social competences:

The student is ready to:

4. take up individual and group activities aimed at developing language skills and study techniques to ensure success in learning (k_U08 )

Forms of evaluation of learning outcomes:

1. Active participation - 60% of the final grade (outcome 1,2,3,4)

2. Digital activities (up to 3 video clip recordings on the course's topics) - 20% each (outcome 2,3,4)

3. Written exam - 40% (of the final grade (outcome 1,2,3,4)

Criteria of evaluation:

60% = 3

80% = 4

100% = 5