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Van De Mieroop, Dorien and Schnurr, Stephanie (2018) Candidates’ humour and the construction of co-membership in job interviews. Language & Communication: an interdisciplinary journal, 61 . pp. 35-45. doi:10.1016/j.langcom.2018.01.002 ISSN 0271-5309.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2018.01.002
Abstract
In this article, we draw on audio-recordings of authentic job interviews to explore the various ways in which candidates use humour to establish, confirm or claim co-membership with the recruiter. We not only analyze whether these humorous comments are successful, but also how candidates use humour to construct various identities. We found that the humorous comments are all oriented to the construction of personalized – instead of professional – identities and that their success could be related to the various discourse types in which they occur. Overall, humour may contribute to the construction of multi-dimensional identities for candidates.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HF Commerce | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Employment interviewing, Wit and humor | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Language & Communication: an interdisciplinary journal | ||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0271-5309 | ||||||||
Official Date: | July 2018 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 61 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 35-45 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.langcom.2018.01.002 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 5 February 2018 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 9 February 2020 |
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