„Kto rzucił butem w pulpit sterowniczy?!”, czyli atom w krzywym zwierciadle humoru (na materiale tekstów polskich, rosyjskich i czeskich)
Who Threw the Shoe in the Control Panel?!”, That Is the Atom in a Distorting Mirror of Humor (Based on the Polish, Russian and Czech texts)

Summary/Abstract: The article presents an analysis of humorous genres of contemporary Polish, Russianand Czech folklore (jokes, sadistic poems, chastushka), inspired by real or anticipated tragicevents related to the use of nuclear energy. The purpose of comparing the texts in threelanguages was to identify common or different motivations which contributed to writing thetexts of atomic humour in the countries with various degrees of advancement of nuclearweapons. The analysis is based on the texts of jokes (approx. 200) found in the Internet(the Polish, Russian and Czech servers), materials spread through spoken communication,and non-serial publications. The analysis proved that the fear motivating the atomic jokes isnot caused by the fear of the atomic technology itself, but by the fear of irresponsible peopleand irreversibility of their unreasonable actions.

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