Publications

Publication details [#43975]

Holmes, Janet. 2006. Sharing a laugh: Pragmatic aspects of humor and gender in the workplace. Journal of Pragmatics 38 (1) : 26–50.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

gender | humor | pragmatics | workplace conversation

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article investigates some of the ways in which humor is employed to foster collegiality, with special attention to the gender dimension in the workplace.