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Subversive humour in educational contexts in India, Malaysia and Vietnam
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Schnurr, Stephanie, Maheshwari, Disha, Mohd Omar, Nor Azikin and Nguyen, Nhung Hong Thi (2016) Subversive humour in educational contexts in India, Malaysia and Vietnam. In: Cadei, Livia, (ed.) Humour in azione : argomenti educativi nei contesti culturali. Pedagogia, persona, possibilità., Percorsi di teoria e storia dell'educazione (3). Milan: Mimesis. ISBN 9788857537429
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Abstract
This paper aims to explore the use of subversive humour in a range of educational contexts in India, Malaysia and Vietnam, including a local secondary school in India, a department in a university in Malaysia, and a public language learning centre in Vietnam. Although it has been noted that humour “is a very effective means of challenging the status quo in socially acceptable and linguistically sophisticated ways” (Holmes and Marra 2002: 84), the subversive functions of humour remain largely under-researched. We aim to address this gap by analysing authentic audio- and video-recorded data in these different educational contexts. In line with most recent functional discourse analytical studies (c.f. Schnurr & Plester fc), our study is empirical, and analyses selected instances of humour that occurred in authentic interactions. We are therefore not interested in making grand claims about the use of humour in the educational and socio-cultural contexts in which the humour occurred but rather aim to provide a thick description (Geertz 1973) and an in-depth analysis of the ways in which interlocutors in these specific interactions use humour. Our particular focus is on the ways in which they employ humour as a subversive tool to challenge and sometimes question the status quo and existing power relations. More specifically, we conduct three in-depth case-studies in different educational contexts to illustrate how those less powerful positions (i.e. students and junior colleagues) use subversive humour towards those in more powerful positions (i.e. teachers and more senior colleagues).
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||
Series Name: | Pedagogia, persona, possibilità., Percorsi di teoria e storia dell'educazione | ||||||
Publisher: | Mimesis | ||||||
Place of Publication: | Milan | ||||||
ISBN: | 9788857537429 | ||||||
Book Title: | Humour in azione : argomenti educativi nei contesti culturali | ||||||
Editor: | Cadei, Livia | ||||||
Official Date: | 2016 | ||||||
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Number: | 3 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 16 June 2017 | ||||||
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