Wordplay in Estonian, Hungarian and Belarusian COVID-19 memes and jokes (hdl:21.15109/ARP/EKMQ7Z)

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Citation

Title:

Wordplay in Estonian, Hungarian and Belarusian COVID-19 memes and jokes

Identification Number:

hdl:21.15109/ARP/EKMQ7Z

Distributor:

ARP

Date of Distribution:

2025-11-25

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1

Bibliographic Citation:

Vargha, Katalin; Voolaid, Piret; Fiadotava, Anastasiya, 2025, "Wordplay in Estonian, Hungarian and Belarusian COVID-19 memes and jokes", https://hdl.handle.net/21.15109/ARP/EKMQ7Z, ARP, V1

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Wordplay in Estonian, Hungarian and Belarusian COVID-19 memes and jokes

Identification Number:

hdl:21.15109/ARP/EKMQ7Z

Authoring Entity:

Vargha, Katalin (HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities)

Voolaid, Piret (Estonian Literary Museum)

Fiadotava, Anastasiya (Estonian Literary Museum)

Distributor:

ARP

Access Authority:

Vargha, Katalin

Depositor:

Szakál, Anna

Date of Deposit:

2024-08-27

Holdings Information:

https://hdl.handle.net/21.15109/ARP/EKMQ7Z

Study Scope

Keywords:

Arts and Humanities, folklore, humor, memes, wordplay, COVID-19

Abstract:

This dataset was created to accompany the article Using wordplay to create humor in Estonian, Hungarian and Belarusian COVID-19 memes by Anastasiya Fiadotava, Katalin Vargha and Piret Voolaid to be published in the scientific journal Acta Ethnographica Hungarica. The authors have collected COVID-19 humour from publicly available social media (for example, Facebook and Vk.com groups, Pinterest, discussion forums, joke collection sites) and organised collections campaigns asking the people in the respective countries to submit the examples of COVID-19 humour. The total number of collected items was 378 in Belarus, 344 in Hungary and more than 2000 in Estonia. After the humorous data were collected, their metadata were recorded (date of collection, source, language, thematic keywords) and they were stored in the Estonian Folklore Archives and in the academic archives of the Department of Folkloristics at the Estonian Literature Museum (Estonian and Belarusian data) and the dataverse of the Institute of Ethnology of the HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities within the ARP Data Repository (Hungarian data). For this dataset we have singled out the examples of COVID-19 humour that had “wordplay” among their thematic keywords. Such filtering yielded 47 items in Belarusian material, 54 units in Estonian material, and 65 items in Hungarian material. The items were mostly collected during the first wave of the COVID-19, in January – June 2020.

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Citation

Title:

Fiadotava, Anastasiya – Vargha, Katalin – Voolaid, Piret (2025) Using wordplay to create humor in Estonian, Hungarian and Belarusian COVID-19 memes. Acta Ethnographica Hungarica (in press)

Bibliographic Citation:

Fiadotava, Anastasiya – Vargha, Katalin – Voolaid, Piret (2025) Using wordplay to create humor in Estonian, Hungarian and Belarusian COVID-19 memes. Acta Ethnographica Hungarica (in press)

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