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Publication details [#53177]
Rees, Charlotte E. and Lynn V. Monrouxe. 2010. “I should be lucky ha ha ha ha”: The construction of power, identity and gender through laughter within medical workplace learning encounters. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (12) : 3384–3399. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study explores how students, patients, and doctors construct and co-construct power, identity and gender via laughter within bedside teaching encounters, focusing in particular on laughter's disaffiliative function in these medical workplace learning encounters.