Black Humour in the COVID-19 Pandemic:
A Comparative Study of the Carnivalesque Spirits on Chinese and Australian
Social Media Through Critical Discourse Analysis

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Black Humour in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comparative Study of the Carnivalesque Spirits on Chinese and Australian Social Media Through Critical Discourse Analysis

This thesis examines COVID-19-related black humour on Chinese and Australian social media. Informed by Bakhtin’s carnivalesque, combining Content Analysis with Critical Discourse Analysis, this study compares themes, types, and power dynamics of black humour between Weibo and Twitter. While the Aust...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Chen, Yifan
Format:	Thesis
Published:	Curtin University 2024
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/95486

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