Publications

Publication details [#52711]

Schnurr, Stephanie and Charley Rowe. 2008. The "Dark Side" of Humour. An Analysis of Subversive Humour in Workplace Emails. Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 4 (1) : 109–130.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

disagreeing | e-mail communication | function | humor | workplace conversation

Place, Publisher

Versita

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LPP/html

Annotation

This study of subversive humour in academic workplace e-mails shows that humour is a useful means especially for those in relatively powerful positions to transfer difficult and potentially impending messages in an acceptable manner.