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Publication details [#25925]

Holmes, Janet and Meredith Marra. 2002. Having a laugh at work: how humour contributes to workplace culture. Journal of Pragmatics 34 (12) : 1683–1710.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

institutional context | language and culture | workplace conversation

Language as a subject

Languages, New Zealand

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper examines the potential of humor analysis for discerning characteristics of workplace sub-cultures within New Zealand government departments, private commercial organizations and factories. It focuses on variation patterns within the frequency, type and style of the humor used.