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Signaling equality: On humor and other semiotic resources that serve disagreement and display horizontal hierarchy

Semiotica 2015 (205):169-190 (2015)

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Politeness, Power and Provocation: How Humour Functions in the Workplace.Janet Holmes - 2000 - Discourse Studies 2 (2):159-185.details This article examines verbal humour in routine interactions within professional workplaces, using material recorded in four New Zealand government departments. The problem of defining humour is discussed, followed by a brief outline of the theoretical models which underpin the analysis of the various functions which humour serves in professional organizations. Humour can express positive affect in interaction. It can also facilitate or `licence' more negative interpersonal communicative intent. While politeness theory can account for the former, as a means of expressing (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 20 citations
Arguing within an institutional hierarchy: how argumentative talk and interlocutors’ embodied practices preserve a superior—subordinate relationship.Einav Argaman - 2009 - Discourse Studies 11 (5):515-541.details This article studies an argument that took place in an institutional setting and specifies six functions of talk and embodied practices employed in an argument between a superior and her subordinate. The article shows how certain argumentative conducts and their subsequent responses preserve the institutional hierarchical relationship. The article’s final section considers three resultant issues: 1) argumentative practices and their relation to various institutional hierarchies; 2) argumentative practices between people holding different versus similar hierarchical positions; and 3) the extent to (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation

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