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Joke-Related Aspects and their Significance in Traditional Korean Funny Performing Arts (한국 전통연희에서의 재담의 양상과 그 의의)

  • Son, Tae-do
    • Journal of Korean Classical Literature and Education
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    • no.32
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    • pp.29-61
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    • 2016
  • A joke (才談, 재담) is "the most interesting and witty language unit" in our speech. However, the search of a joke is still starting. Although joke are related to the witty and interesting talks, stories, songs and plays, the actual object of a joke is only the witty and interesting talk. A joke is witty talk that is interesting or laughter-inducing. Many Jokes can be found in the traditional Korean funny performing arts (演戱, 연희). This is because these art forms are performed in open yards, which necessitated amusing the audience, amusement, in its turn, required jokes. Jokes in the traditional funny performing arts can generally be classified as follows: 1) Jokes related to a situation: These include right words at a given situation, exaggerating words, diminishing words, deviancy words, and cause-effect words. 2) Jokes related to discourse: These include enumerating words, amplificatory words, contrasting words, fluently lying words, undeniable words, purposely unknowing words, and deliberately incorrect words. 3) Jokes related to vocabulary: These include synonym, similar words, changed word-ordering words, and incorrect words. 4) Jokes related to pronunciation: These include homonyms, and anti-homonyms. Although there may be other jokes, those presented above are typical ones. A joke is "the result that human being can achieve when he/she has overcome natural and social difficulties and is left with only a free and creative spirit." Jokes are necessary in all ages and everywhere. Today, more varied and high-level jokes can be created by developing the diversity of jokes in traditional funny performing arts. Also, I expect new sorts of jokes, because a joke always demands a creative spirit.

Effective Learning Tasks and Activities to Improve EFL Listening Comprehension

  • Im, Byung-Bin
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • no.6
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    • pp.1-24
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    • 2000
  • Listening comprehension is an integrative and creative process of interaction through which listeners receive speakers' production of linguistic or non-linguistic knowledge. Compared with reading comprehension, it may arouse difficulties and thus impose more burdens on foreign learners. The Audio-Lingual Method focused primarily on speaking. Mimicry, repetition, rote memory, and transformation drills actually interfered with listening comprehension. So learners lost interest and were not highly motivated. Improving listening comprehension requires continual attentiveness and interest. Listening skill can be extended systematically only when students are frequently exposed to a wide range of listening materials with an affective, cultural, social, and psycholinguistic approach. Therefore, teachers should help students learn how to comprehend intactly the overall meaning of intended messages. The literature on teaching listening skill suggests various useful activities: TPR, dictation, role playing, singing, picture recognition, completion, prediction, seeking specific information, summarizing, labeling, humor, jokes, cartoons, media, and so on. Practical classroom teaching necessitates a systematic procedure in which students should take part in meaningful tasks/activities. In addition to this, learners must practice listening comprehension trough a self-study process.

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Copy Style in Print Advertising : Focused on Humor Advertising (인쇄 광고의 카피 특성 분석 - 유머 광고를 중심으로)

  • Lee, Kwang-Sook;Koo, Ja-Hwi
    • Journal of the Korean Graphic Arts Communication Society
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.73-87
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this study is to provide a executive guideline of humor in Print advertising by analyzing the copy style. For this aim, in-depth analysis about the copy style of humor in Print advertising collected by the web-site of TV cf from 2005 to 2008 was performed. In conclusion, findings showed that the copy style in the pattern of expression was focused on the psychological arousal and incongruity and the pattern of damaging and attacking someone's prestige was considered to be significant in some degree. It was also found that the copy style of humor in Print advertising in the method of expression was focused on the factor of pun, jokes, double-meaning but the factor of satire, irony and turns of phrase was a minority.

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Interpretation of Shijo poems which featured handicapped animals and "The night a green frog ached its stomach to death" (불구동물 등장 시조와 "청(靑)개고리 복질(腹疾)하여 주근 날 밤$\sim$"의 해석)

  • Lee, Young-Tae
    • Sijohaknonchong
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    • v.30
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    • pp.301-318
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    • 2009
  • This article aims to interpret the meaning of the sentence "The night a green frog ached its stomach to death $\sim$", based upon the characteristics of certain Shijo poems which featured handicapped animals. Many Shijo poems feature animals, but they rarely feature them in a handicapped state. In those cases, readers usually try to identify the intentions of the author with the unjust and wrongful situations of the time the poem was written, but yet another interpretation could be presented, considering the premises necessary for understanding Saseol Shijo poems. Only among Saseol Shijo poems handicapped animals can be found in a Shijo text, and they are referred to and sung not in the stage of 'serious outbursts' being fired but during the stage of 'hollow jokes' being made. Any handicapped condition that an unhandicapped one could imitate could be imitated for humor, so the actions of a frog, a toad or an ant which forgot their own inabilities can be considered very comic and farcical in the eyes of the readers embracing the contents of the poem. In "The night a green frog ached its stomach to death$\sim$-"(#2834), the death of the green frog is no ordinary death. This particular frog could be referring to the baby frog which appeared in #3160, or the entire sentence could be referring to the fact that a particular figure which had already disrupted the atmosphere of the world inside the poem is no longer present in that world. Considering all these conditions inside the poem's own world, Shijo poems which featured handicapped animals were not meant to be delivering any kind of educational or critical messages, but they were rather either maintaining or heightening the mood inside the poem's own world.

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Nurses's Experience of Verbal Violence in Hospital Setting (병원 내 간호사의 언어폭력 경험에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Soon-Hee;Chung, Seung-Eun
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.526-536
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    • 2007
  • Purpose: The purpose of this phenomenological research was to identify nurses's experience of verbal violence from doctor in hospital setting. Methods: The participants of this study were twelve nurses who work at a hospital in Chungbuk. Data was collected through documents, observation, and tape-recorded in-depth interview individually from participants. It was analyzed using the phenomenological methodology by Colaizzi. Results: From significant statements, seven categories were identified as follows: Lowering self-esteem due to authoritative and insulting remarks, Getting angry and being disagreeable due to blunt remarks, Being disgraceful due to broad jokes sexually, Hoping to escape present due to skepticism in their job, Being estranged due to bad feeling, Expressing their anger, and Using various way for improvement of relationship. Conclusion: Nurses's experience of verbal violence was showed nurse-doctor relationship was still vertical, not collaborative and supportive. This vertical relationship would cause conflicts between doctor and nurse. Therefore it is need doctor to be changed the mind that nurse is a professional, and to come up with the plan for enhancing inter-collaborative relationship in order to solve conflict between them.

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A Study of the Fool as a 'Wise Fool' and 'Healer' in King Lear (『리어왕』에 나타난 현명한 바보이자 치유자로서의 광대에 관한 연구)

  • Ryu, Da-Young
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.78-85
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    • 2015
  • Fools usually make people laugh through their comic appearances and foolish behaviors. A fool in King Lear also gives us pleasure by his unique jokes and humors, however, he is not so foolish. He is very wise and has the intuition to penetrate people's mind and understands the facts. He predicts the future, criticizes the untrueness and heals the wounded mind. He always keeps Lear company and makes him realize his own foolishness. After getting out of his own suffering and fear, Lear experiences his healing process of purification with the help of the fool. In this respect, the fool in King Lear is a wise helper and healer for King Lear.

Sexual Harassment of Nurses in Long-term Care Hospitals (노인요양병원 간호사의 성희롱 경험 실태)

  • Park, Gong-Ju;Jung, Hyang-Mi;Kim, Mee-Kyung
    • The Korean Journal of Health Service Management
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.95-107
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    • 2014
  • This study is a descriptive research to investigate the actual conditions under which nurses working in long-term care hospitals are sexually harassed and situations in which sexual harassment occurs and to determine victims' coping methods after being sexually harassed. The period of data collection was from May 13, 2013 to June 14 and the research subjects were 113 nurses working in 10 long-term care hospitals in Busan assigned by convenience sampling. The results showed that sexual harassment of nurses mostly occurred as follows: visual harassment, which involved the perpetrators looking inappropriately at nurses; physical harassment, which involved intentional touching or leaning into the body; and verbal harassment, which involved making sexual jokes and remarks. The development of a prevention program for sexual harassment targeting patients and nurses in long-term care hospitals should be required to enable victims to perceive and efficiently cope with sexual harassment.

A Study on mathematical imaginations shown in children's mathematical narratives (초등학생의 수학 이야기에 나타난 수학적 상상 연구)

  • Kim, Sangmee
    • Education of Primary School Mathematics
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.361-380
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    • 2016
  • This study aims to reflect on mathematical imaginations in learning mathematics and elementary students' mathematical imaginations. This was approaching a study of imagination not as psychological problems but as objects and methods of mathematics learning. First, children's mathematical narratives were analysed in terms of Egan(2008)'s basic cognitive tools using imagination, that is, metaphor, binary opposites, rhyme rhythm pattern, jokes humor, mental imagery, gossip, play, mystery. Second, how children's imaginations change under different grades was addressed.

Comparison of Working Conditions among Non-regular Visiting Nurses in Public Health Centers based on Their Employment Types (전국 보건소 비정규직 방문간호사의 고용형태별 직무실태 비교)

  • Kim, Hee Girl;Lee, Ryoun-Sook;Jang, Soong-Nang;Kim, Kwang Byung;Chin, Young Ran
    • Research in Community and Public Health Nursing
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    • v.29 no.3
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    • pp.267-278
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    • 2018
  • Purpose: This study is to investigate working conditions including job stress among visiting nurses in public health centers in Korea. Methods: An social network based mobile survey was conducted in May 2017 (N=936, response rate: 47.0%). Results: The visiting nurses in this study had their average total career as a nurse is 13.7 years. The 68.3% of them were employed in an indefinite term, 17.0% were hired in a fixed term, and 11.0% came from outsourcing. They responded as high job-stress level including inadequate compensation (71.22/100) and job demands (71.91/100). They experienced down-talk (63.4%), swearwords (32.9%), being made a dirty face (39.9%), sexual jokes (30.8%), or being likened or evaluated with their appearance sexually (14.3%). Among the causes of job related conflicts and discrimination, deprived salary level was the most frequent reason (83.4%). The conflicts and discrimination were incurred by government officers (52.4%). There were no significant differences in overall job stress, emotional labor, organizational commitment, violence, and discrimination experience based on their employment types. Conclusion: The differences in working conditions among the non-regular nurses were trivial, and their overall working conditions were poor. It is necessary to improve non-regular nurses' working conditions in order to make up the limitations of the Korean healthcare system which is centered on hospitals.

A Study on the Recognition of Men and Women highschool student's sexual abuse (남녀고등학생의 성폭력 인식에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Sung-Mi;Park, Meera
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.970-978
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    • 2014
  • Purpose of the study is to understand Men and Women highschool student's recognition of, attitude toward, and reaction to sexual violence in terms of men and women difference. The study data was collected from July 1st to 30th in 2013 from 563 highschool students in D city. SPSS 19.0 with percentage, real number and $x^2$_test is used to analyze the data. The result of the study is, the first, there is a significant difference in respondents' experience in sexual violence or harrassment. Secondly, different perspectives about including looking at the body insidiously, forcing lascivious writing or picture, sexual jokes, vulgar expression about appearance, or intentional body contacts in public transportation vehicles to the concept of sexual violence are found between boys and girls. Lastly, different recognitions, attitudes and reactions were produced according to the place and time of the sexual violence, victim-attacker relationship, the cause of the sexual violence, and attitude toward the victim when rescue.