An Ethnographic Study of the Role of Humor in Health Care Transactions

by Lance R. Lippert and Stephen K. Hunt

This book examines conversational humor in communicative exchanges during the health care transaction. Our focus is on interactive humor at a specific cultural site as it actually occurs. This study is based on the assumption that the participants at this site routinely engage in some form of humor exchange during interpersonal communication in health care transactions. Given the prevalence of humor use in the health setting, as well as the lack of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773462473
• ISBN13: 9780773462472
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
• Length: 202 Pages