Folklore vol. 46

Electronic Journal of Folklore


From Language to Mind 3
2010/03 ISSN 1406-0949


Foreword 7
Jokes as the Truth about Soviet Socialism 9
Christie Davies
How Humour Makes a Difference 33
Seppo Knuuttila
Dumb Blondes and Democracy 43
Stanoy Stanoev
Humorous Interpretations of Abbreviations as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenon 61
Piret Voolaid
Paremiological Correspondence and its After-Thoughts 83
Outi Lauhakangas
Women’s Place in Finnish Proverbs from Childhood 95
Liisa Granbom-Herranen
Proverbs and Medicine: The Problem of Applied Folklore 111
Larisa Fialkova
Tricksters Trot to America: Areal Distribution of Folklore Motifs 125
Yuri Berezkin
"Our Beer is Better Than Theirs": Sub-cultural Comics as a Joking Relationship with Identity 143
Aimar Ventsel
Discussion
From Paremiography to Paremiology: the Role of AIP-IAP as an International and Cultural Exchange facilitator 161
Rui J.B. Soares
Notes about Re-identification of Ethnographic Groups 169
Art Leete, Yuri Shabayev
Folklore Today and Folklore Tomorrow? Folk’s Problems in the Shrinking World 177
John S. Ryan
In Memoriam
Nikolai Konakov
197
 News in brief
The Inner and the Outer in the Ritual Year: Traditions and Today - Irina Sedakova [198]
22nd International Humor Conference in Hong Kong - Piret Voolaid [202]
Europhras Conference in Spain - Anneli Baran [205]
From Language to Mind 4 - Liisi Laineste [207]
News
 Book review
Permitted Laughter - Joanna Szerszunowicz [210]
Books
 List of contributors
Our authors183



Electronic Journal of Folklore
Folklore
vol. 46. 2010

ISSN 1406-0949
Published by: FB and Media Group of LM
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Edited by Mare Kõiva & Andres Kuperjanov
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