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Blurred Lines: The Ambiguity of Disparaging Humour and Slurs in Norwegian High School Boys’ Friendship Groups [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This article examines the use of disparaging humour and slurs in Norwegian high school boys’ friendship groups to shed light on the complexity of adolescent males’ friendships and everyday socialization through a phenomenon that is usually connected to ...
Johannessen, Elise Margrethe Vike
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Nordic Humour

open access: yesNordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 2023
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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Cultural Knowledge as A Resource in BELF Interactions: A Longitudinal Ethnographic Study of Two Managers in Global Business

open access: yesIperstoria, 2019
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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Exploring distributed leadership : solving disagreements and negotiating consensus in a 'leaderless' team [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article explores how leadership is done in a 'leaderless' team. Drawing on a corpus of more than 120 hours of audio-recorded meetings of different interdisciplinary research groups and using a discourse analytic framework and tools, we examine how ...
Choi, Seongsook   +3 more
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The social construction of humour

open access: yesPacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa, 2001
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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Humour as a Boundary-Breaker in Social Work Practice

open access: yesEthics and Social Welfare, 2023
Professional boundaries are an important aspect of social work theory and praxis – yet it is an underexplored topic within the research literature. Research often explores specific types of professional boundary issue rather than exploring social workers’ boundary stories or boundary narratives.
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Editorial: Humour and social media [PDF]

open access: yesThe European Journal of Humour Research, 2017
Editorial: Humour and social ...
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Exploring the uses of virtues in woman‐centred care: A quest, synthesis and reflection

open access: yes, 2022
Woman‐centred care is a philosophy authentic to the midwifery profession, scaffolding and preceding the capacity and utility of woman‐centred care in daily practice.
Yvonne J. Kuipers, Kuipers, Yvonne J.
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Is education for using humour in nursing needed?

open access: yes, 2018
Introduction: Although there has been considerable discussion regarding the presence of therapeutic aspects of humour in the nurse educational programme and syllabus, little is known about the use of humour in the nurse - patient relationship and the ...
Sruk, Vida   +2 more
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Humour in Firm-initiated Social Media Conversations

open access: yesInternational Journal of Digital Culture and Electronic Tourism, 2018
Humour plays an important role in driving firm-consumer conversations on social media, yet the examination of humour from a rhetorical perspective remains unheeded in marketing and tourism literature. Drawing on the linguistic concepts of moves, speech acts, humour and rhetorical appeals, this research aims to develop a conceptual model for applying ...
Ge, Jing, Gretzel, Ulrike, Zhu, Yunxia
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