Over the edge? Subversive humor between colleagues and friends

By Janet Holmes, Meredith Marra. 2002

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Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology

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Transforming with levity: humor, leadership, and follower attitudes (2009, background): “Conversely, humor was found to serve a more subversive purpose as workers employed joking behaviors to emphasize the status differentials between labor and management (Collinson, 1988; Holmes and Marra, 2002).”
Humor and leadership style (2006, methodology): “This research is reported in Holmes and Marra 2002a. 4.”
Analyzing conversational data in GTVH terms: A new approach to the issue of identity construction via humor (2005, methodology): “From this perspective, linguistic and conversational humorous choices can be seen as acts of identity, i.e. as discursive strategies by means of which people can construct their situated sense of social identity (see Holmes and Marra 2002a: 378).”
A corpus linguistics study of SMS text messaging (2009, background): “1 Similar points can be made regarding the hindering of identification of creative practices at the level of discourse (Holmes and Marra 2002).”
The Wheel Model of humor: Humor events and affect in organizations (2012, background): “Coser, 1960; Davies, 1990; Holmes, 2000), and the subversion of power (Collinson, 1988; Holmes and Marra, 2002; Linstead, 1985).”
Emotional Dynamics and Strategizing Processes: A Study of Strategic Conversations in Top Team Meetings (2014, background): “served to diffuse the potentially conflictual situation (Griffiths, 1998; Hatch, 1997; Holmes and Marra, 2002) and realign team and leader (Glenn, 1994), but in the emotional tugs of war, under pressure for a decision, team members seemed to intensify their commitment to their own positions (Turner ”
Talk in a play frame: More on laughter and intimacy (2007, background): “These include the workplace (Holmes, 2000; Holmes et al., 2001; Holmes and Marra, 2002; Mullaney, 2003); the classroom (Kehily and Nayak, 1997; Davies, 2003); medical settings (DuPre, 1998; Astedt-Kurki et al., 2001; Sullivan et al., 2003); TV discussion groups (Kotthoff, 2003); as well as informal…”