Publications
Publication details [#14221]
Hay, Jennifer. 2000. Functions of humor in the conversations of men and women. Journal of Pragmatics 32 (6) : 709–742. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
A taxonomy of humor functions of humor is applied to New Zealand male and female friendship groups. The taxonomy distinguishes between solidarity-based, power-based and psychology-based functions of humor and reveals several gender-specific patterns in the humor of New Zealand men and women.