"I should be lucky ha ha ha ha": The construction of power, identity and gender through laughter within medical workplace learning encounters

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3384-3399

  Rees, Charlotte E ^a   Monrouxe, Lynn V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gender; Identity; Laughter; Medical workplace learning; Power; Student doctor patient relationship

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957135970     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2010.05.004     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Attardo Salvatore Introduction: the pragmatics of humor. Journal of Pragmatics 2003, 35:1287-1294.
2. Bateson Gregory Steps to An Ecology of Mind 2000, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.
3. Billig Michael Laughter and Ridicule: Towards a Social Critique of Humour 2005, Sage, London.
4. Boxer Diana, Cortés-Conde Florencia From bonding to biting: conversational joking and identity display. Journal of Pragmatics 1997, 27:275-294.
5. Cameron Deborah Performing gender identity: young men's talk and the construction of heterosexual masculinity. Language and Masculinity 1997, 47-64. Blackwell, Oxford. S.A. Johnson, U.H. Meinhof (Eds.).
6. Charon Joel M. Symbolic Interactionism. An Introduction, An Interpretation, An Integration 2007, Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ. 9th edition.
7. Coates Jennifer Talk in a play frame: more on laughter and intimacy. Journal of Pragmatics 2007, 39:29-49.
8. Collinson David L. Managing humour. Journal of Management Studies 2002, 39:269-288.
9. Coser Rose L. Laughter among colleagues: a study of the social functions of humor among the staff of a mental hospital. Psychiatry 1960, 23:81-95.
10. Crawford Mary Gender and humor in social context. Journal of Pragmatics 2003, 35:1413-1430.
11. Dent John A. Hospital wards. A Practical Guide for Medical Teachers 2001, 98-108. Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh. J.A. Dent, R.M. Harden (Eds.).
12. Drew Paul Po-faced receipts of teases. Linguistics 1987, 25:219-253.
13. Talk at Work 1992, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. P. Drew, J. Heritage (Eds.).
14. Fairclough Norman Language and Power 2001, Pearson Education Limited, Essex.
15. Frosh Stephen, Phoenix Ann, Pattman Rob Young Masculinities 2002, Palgrave, London.
16. Gale Christopher P., Gale Richard P. Is bedside teaching in cardiology necessary for the undergraduate education of medical students?. Medical Education 2006, 40:11-13.
17. Glenn Phillip Laughter in Interaction 2003, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
18. Goffman Erving The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life 1959, Doubleday, New York.
19. Goffman Erving Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face-to-Face Behaviour 1967, Doubleday, New York.
20. Goffman Erving Forms of Talk 1981, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.
21. Grainger, Karen (2002). Politeness or impoliteness: verbal play on the hospital ward. Working Papers on the Web, Sheffield Hallam University, UK. (accessed 24.09.09). http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/politeness/grainger.htm.
22. Granek-Catarivas M., Goldstein-Ferber S., Azuri Y., Vinker S., Kahan E. Use of humour in primary care: different perceptions among patients and physicians. Postgraduate Medical Journal 2005, 81:126-130.
23. Haakana, Markku (1999). Laughing matters: a conversation analytical study of laughter in doctor-patient interaction. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. University of Helsinki, Finland.
24. Holmes Janet Politeness, power and provocation: how humour functions in the workplace. Discourse Studies 2000, 2:159-185.
25. Holmes Janet, Marra Meredith Having a laugh at work: how humor contributes to workplace culture. Journal of Pragmatics 2002, 34:1683-1710.
26. Holmes Janet, Marra Meredith Over the edge? Subversive humor between colleagues and friends. Humor 2002, 15:65-87.
27. Holmes Janet, Stubbe Maria, Vine Bernadette Constructing professional identity: "doing power" in policy units. Talk, Work and Institutional Order 1999, 351-385. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin. S. Sarangi, C. Roberts (Eds.).
28. Janicik Regina W., Fletcher Kathlyn E. Teaching at the bedside: a new model. Medical Teacher 2003, 25(2):127-130.
29. Jefferson Gail On the organization of laughter in talk about troubles. Structures of Social Action: Studies in Conversation Analysis 1984, 346-369. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. J.M. Atkinson, J. Heritage (Eds.).
30. Jefferson Gail An exercise in the transcription and analysis of laughter. Handbook of Discourse Analysis; Volume 3: Discourse and Dialogue 1985, 25-34. Academic Press, London. T.A. van Dijk (Ed.).
31. Jefferson Gail A note on laughter in 'male-female' interaction. Discourse Studies 2004, 6:117-133.
32. Kotthoff Helga Gender and humor: the state of the art. Journal of Pragmatics 2006, 38:4-25.
33. Lampert Martin D., Ervin-Tripp Susan M. Risky laughter: teasing and self-directed joking among male and female friends. Journal of Pragmatics 2006, 38:51-72.
34. Martin Diane M. Humor in middle management: women negotiating the paradoxes of organisational life. Journal of Applied Communication Research 2004, 32:147-170.
35. Mester Cindy M., O'Sullivan Lucia F. Such a tease: intentional sexual provocation within heterosexual interactions. Archives of Sex and Behavior 2007, 36:531-542.
36. Monrouxe Lynn V., Rees Charlotte E., Bradley Paul A. 'The construction of patients' involvement in hospital bedside teaching encounters. Qualitative Health Research 2009, 19(7):918-930.
37. Partington Alan The Linguistics of Laughter. A Corpus-assisted Study of Laughter-talk 2006, Routledge, London/New York.
38. Partington Alan Teasing at the White House: a corpus-linguistics study of face work in performing and responding to teases. Text & Talk 2008, 28(6):729-771.
39. Provine Robert R. Laughter: A Scientific Investigation 2000, Viking, New York.
40. Rademakers Jany J.D.J.M., van den Muijsenbergh Maria E.T.C., Slappendel Geerte, Lagro-Janssen Antoine L.M., Borleffs Jan C.C. Sexual harassment during clinical clerkships in Dutch medical schools. Medical Education 2008, 42:452-458.
41. Rees Charlotte E., Monrouxe Lynn V. "Is it alright if I-um-we unbutton your pyjama top now?" Pronominal use in bedside teaching encounters. Communication & Medicine 2008, 5(2):171-182.
42. Rees Charlotte E., Knight Lynn V., Wilkinson Clare E. "Doctors being up there and we being down here": a metaphorical analysis of talk about student/doctor-patient relationships. Social Science & Medicine 2007, 65:725-737.
43. Rees Charlotte E., Knight Lynn V., Wilkinson Clare E. "User involvement is a sine qua non, almost, in medical education": learning with rather than just about health and social care service users. Advances in Health Sciences Education 2007, 12(3):359-390.
44. Sandstrom Kent L., Martin Daniel D., Fine Gary A. Symbols, Selves and Social Reality. A Symbolic Interactionist Approach to Social Psychology and Sociology 2006, Roxbury Publishing Company, California, LA.
45. Talk, Work and Institutional Order. Discourse in Medical, Mediation and Management Settings 1999, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin. S. Sarangi, C. Roberts (Eds.).
46. Tholander Michael, Aronsson Karin Teasing as serious business: collaborative staging and response work. Text 2002, 22:59-595.
47. Wang Jinjun Questions and the exercise of power. Discourse & Society 2006, 17:529-548.
48. Wear Delese, Aultman Julie M., Varley Joseph D., Zarconi Joseph Making fun of patients: medical students' perceptions and use of derogatory and cynical humor in clinical settings. Academic Medicine 2006, 81:454-462.
49. Wear Delese, Aultman Julie M., Zarconi Joseph, Varley Joseph D. Derogatory and cynical humour directed towards patients: views of residents and attending doctors. Medical Education 2009, 43:34-41.