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Stadler, Stefanie. 2019. Laughter and its functions in Japanese business communication. Journal of Pragmatics 141 : 16–27.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

business language | conflict | culture | laughter | workplace conversation

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This paper contributes to our extant grasp of Japanese business communication by examining the nature and functions of the use of laughter in a Japanese workplace context and by elucidating actual business practices and how they relate to prior research insights.