‘Joking aside’ The power of rejections in humour

IF 2.1 2区 文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION
Hanna Söderlund
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Abstract

Response is an effective tool for exercising power in humour, since it can make a person seem funny. In the same way, the lack of response can make a person seem unfunny. In this article I argue that failed jokes make a female skiing pundit on TV seem humourless and that this is due to the other interlocutors refraining from giving adequate responses. The material is from a sports programme about cross-country skiing on Swedish Television. The aim of the case study is to find out how power is exercised discursively in humour that fails and to discuss possible implications the rejections may have on notions of gender. The theoretical framework used is a feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis in combination with an analysis of internal and external control mechanisms. The discursive practice of repeated rejections of the female pundit may have consequences for her possibilities in seeming humorous.
幽默中拒绝的力量
回应是运用幽默力量的有效工具,因为它可以让一个人看起来很有趣。同样,缺乏回应也会让一个人显得乏味。在这篇文章中,我认为,失败的笑话会让电视上的女性滑雪专家看起来毫无幽默感,这是因为其他对话者没有做出充分的回应。这些材料来自瑞典电视台的一个关于越野滑雪的体育节目。案例研究的目的是找出权力是如何在失败的幽默中随意行使的,并讨论拒绝可能对性别观念产生的影响。所使用的理论框架是女权主义后结构主义话语分析,结合对内部和外部控制机制的分析。反复拒绝女性专家的话语实践可能会影响她看起来幽默的可能性。
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Discourse & Communication
Discourse & Communication COMMUNICATION-
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期刊介绍: Discourse & Communication is an international, peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles that pay specific attention to the qualitative, discourse analytical approach to issues in communication research. Besides the classical social scientific methods in communication research, such as content analysis and frame analysis, a more explicit study of the structures of discourse (text, talk, images or multimedia messages) allows unprecedented empirical insights into the many phenomena of communication. Since contemporary discourse study is not limited to the account of "texts" or "conversation" alone, but has extended its field to the study of the cognitive, interactional, social, cultural.
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