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Starting from my former empirical studies but supplemented with fresh fictional “data” from Lars von Trier’s latest TV series Riget Exodus (2022), I first describe how Danes use humour in very characteristic ways, also in cross-cultural professional ...
Lita Lundquist
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Parenting practices as risk or preventive factors for adolescent involvement in cyberbullying: Contribution of children and parent gender [PDF]
Literature points out the role of parenting on adolescent cyberbullying involvement. However, it is necessary to clarify how gender affects this relationship.
Gómez Ortiz, Olga +3 more
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This paper contributes to the growing field of research on English as a business lingua franca (BELF) and extends discussion on the role of culture and cultural knowledge in business interactions. It aims to provide insights into the relationship between
Tiina Räisänen
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'White knuckle care work' : violence, gender and new public management in the voluntary sector [PDF]
Drawing on comparative data from Canada and Scotland, this article explores reasons why violence is tolerated in non-profit care settings. This article will provide insights into how workers' orientations to work, the desire to care and the intrinsic ...
Baines C +19 more
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The Divisive Power of Humour: Comedy, Taste and Symbolic Boundaries [PDF]
Using British and Dutch interview data, this article demonstrates how people from different social classes draw strong symbolic boundaries on the basis of comedy taste.
Bellevance G +10 more
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Controlling service work: An ambiguous accomplishment between employees, management and customers [PDF]
In order to understand the control of service work, most service literature has focused on its production while treating the customer as secondary. The consumption literature emphasizes the customer’s role but lacks empirical evidence for its claims ...
Grilo, Isabel +2 more
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Critique sociale, humour et Valence
Le but de cet article est de montrer que les œuvres de Ferran Torrent publiees dans ces quinze dernieres annees (a partir de 1999) s’inscrivent integralement dans le genre du roman noir, bien qu’avec des modifications, pour constituer, d’une part, un portrait acere des changements sociaux, politiques et urbanistiques de la ville de Valence gouvernee ...
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Can higher education reduce the negative consequences of police occupational culture amongst new recruits? [PDF]
Purpose There is considerable evidence to illustrate police occupational culture can negatively influence service delivery and organizational reform. To counteract this, and to improve professionalism, the Police services of England & Wales will become ...
Cox, Carol, Kirby, Stuart
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Editorial: Humour and social media [PDF]
Editorial: Humour and social ...
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The social construction of humour
Fiji journalistic cartoons, especially when making political critiques, tend to be too shallow with an irritating tendency to state and show the obvious, a cardinal sin in cartooning.
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