Publications

Publication details [#42749]

Fine, Gary Alan and Michaela de Soucey. 2005. Joking cultures: Humor themes as social regulation in group life. Humor 18 (1) : 1–22.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ethnography | group interaction | joking | language and culture | sociology

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This paper shows how group joking serves various functions such as compliance securing, smoothing interaction, sharing affiliation, and constituting separation from outsiders.