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Hurley, Kathleen Ann.

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Humor and technical communication: The culture, the texts, the implications.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Humor and technical communication: The culture, the texts, the implications./
Author:	Hurley, Kathleen Ann.
Description:	162 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-04, Section: A, page: 1602.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International57-04A.
Subject:	Language, Modern. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9626043

Humor and technical communication: The culture, the texts, the implications.
Hurley, Kathleen Ann.

Humor and technical communication: The culture, the texts, the implications. - 162 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-04, Section: A, page: 1602.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Iowa State University, 1996.

This study argues that, for both practical and theoretical reasons, scholarly inquiry is needed in the area of humor and professional communication: specifically, the humor that technical writers are incorporating into technical texts. To address this need, the study approaches humor from a social perspective which assumes that discourse is understood within the contextualized activity within which it occurs.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018098
Language, Modern.

Humor and technical communication: The culture, the texts, the implications.
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500 $a Major Professor: Michael Mendelson.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Iowa State University, 1996.
520 $a This study argues that, for both practical and theoretical reasons, scholarly inquiry is needed in the area of humor and professional communication: specifically, the humor that technical writers are incorporating into technical texts. To address this need, the study approaches humor from a social perspective which assumes that discourse is understood within the contextualized activity within which it occurs.
520 $a Interdisciplinary humor research is explored, and from these studies specific contextual elements which impact discourse are identified: humor stimuli, expectations, values, participant relationships, and group relationships. However, existing research concentrates on the identification of these elements from a serious perspective, and this present study further argues that humor needs to be understood from within the humor context within which humor operates most freely.
520 $a Drawing upon the writings of Michael Mulkay and, to a greater extent, Mikhail Bakhtin's Rabelais and His World, this study develops a social theory of humor which explains humor from within such a humor context, specifically the office humor culture which is part of the workplace of professional communicators.
520 $a Finally, this study applies the theory that is developed in four ways: it presents a sampling of office-humor texts, a synthesis of the subject matter in those texts, comparisons of office humor and humor in technical documents, and a single example which produced differing interpretations.
590 $a School code: 0097.
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