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Zeyad Al-Daher; Othman Aref Al-Dala’ien; Yasser Al-Shboul; Mohammad Al-Rousan; Meera B. Sahawneh – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
This study investigates COVID-19 jokes created and circulated on Jordanian social media during the period between March to October 2020. The jokes used in this study were collected from several Facebook accounts. The study presents a content analysis and a linguistic analysis of 197 COVID-19 jokes in terms of the General Theory of Verbal Humor…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Humor, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Salem, Essa; Jarrah, Marwan; Alrashdan, Imran – SAGE Open, 2020
The present study examines the use of English lexical insertions to create humor by Jordanian university students. The data of the study are collected from spontaneous tape-recorded conversations from 62 participants of both males and females, representing different age groups (from 18-23 years old) and belonging to different specializations…
Descriptors: Humor, Language Usage, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning