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    A Brief Conclusion

    To conclude, if such a thing is possible with this kind of work, the book’s main argument’s structure moves as follows.

    Mary Gregg in The Untold Help of Harmful Visual Jokes (2023)

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    The Unique Unspoken Discourse of Visual Jokes

    This chapter addresses the way visual jokes communicate nonverbally and discursively, differing from their verbal counterparts by conveying their message without the use of speech acts, written or spoken. Furt...

    Mary Gregg in The Untold Help of Harmful Visual Jokes (2023)

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    Reconciliation and Re-empowerment

    The thrust of this chapter is not just in finding ways to re-empower the disempowered object of our depiction but how we can reclaim the harmful messages as tools of empowerment not by ridding ourselves of these ...

    Mary Gregg in The Untold Help of Harmful Visual Jokes (2023)

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    Harmful Jokes

    In what follows, I present a brief background on harmful jokes—their asymmetric and dynamic structure and perlocutionary force, humor theory, and humor ethics. Then I will touch on the “harms” that will be fle...

    Mary Gregg in The Untold Help of Harmful Visual Jokes (2023)

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    The Harm of Harmful Visual Jokes

    Though this chapter is concerned with the harm of harmful visual jokes, I won’t refer to the visual joke’s status as moral or immoral, though it may turn out that the effects of its representation end up as ei...

    Mary Gregg in The Untold Help of Harmful Visual Jokes (2023)