The workplace - Humour (I didn't get that!)
4 important questions on The workplace - Humour (I didn't get that!)
What is supportive humour?
What are the primary functions of humour in the workplace?
- Humour contributes to social cohesion in the workplace by doing collegiality and promoting solidarity
- Humour can be used to defuse pressure and as a discourse strategy to cushion difficult and embarrassing topics. Humour can, as a face-saving strategy, modify the force of undesirable acts
- Humour can be used strategically to include and simultaneously exclude participation in meetings and have subsequent consequences on relationships
Which three steps are required to understand humour?
- recognition
- understanding
- appreciation
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At which seven levels may a speaker fail to engage in a humourous exchange?
- failure to process language at the locutionary level
- failure to understand the meaning of words
- failure to understand pragmatic force of utterances
- failure to recognise the humourous frame, either missing a joke or seeing a joke where none was intended
- failure to understand the incongruity of the joke
- failure to appreciate the joke
- failure to join in the joking
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