When laughter is not enough. Responding to teasing and self-denigrating humour at work

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 20-35

  Schnurr, Stephanie ^a   Chan, Angela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Rapport management; Responses to humour; Self denigrating humour; Teasing; Workplace discourse

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049471283     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2010.09.001     Document Type: Article

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