Results 11 to 20 of about 419 (267)
Blurred Lines: The Ambiguity of Disparaging Humour and Slurs in Norwegian High School Boys’ Friendship Groups [PDF]
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
core +2 more sources
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
doaj +1 more source
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
doaj +1 more source
Exploring distributed leadership : solving disagreements and negotiating consensus in a 'leaderless' team [PDF]
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
core +1 more source
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.
openaire +4 more sources
Humour as a Boundary-Breaker in Social Work Practice
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.
openaire +1 more source
Editorial: Humour and social media [PDF]
Editorial: Humour and social ...
openaire +3 more sources
Exploring the uses of virtues in woman‐centred care: A quest, synthesis and reflection
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.
core +1 more source
Is education for using humour in nursing needed?
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
core +1 more source
Humour in Firm-initiated Social Media Conversations
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
openaire +2 more sources

