Publications

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

gender | identity negotiation | laughter | medical conversation | power

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

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.