Funny or distasteful? A cross-cultural perspective on surprise and humour in multimodal advertising

Today’s infotainment clutter puts pressure on advertisers to come up with more surprising and more memorable ads. This need for novelty, creativity, and astonishment does set the expectation bar high, steering ads towards various means of eliciting surprise, including humour, shock, and taboo. In th...

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Main Author: Anna Stwora
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies 2020-07-01
Series:The European Journal of Humour Research
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Online Access:https://www.europeanjournalofhumour.org/index.php/ejhr/article/view/440