Negative assessments in humour: a way of doing gender
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Hanna Söderlund
Hanna Söderlund is a doctoral student in applied linguistics at Umeå University in Sweden. Her thesis is about gender representation in humour. She is interested in how the participants of a Swedish humour panel show interact with each other, with conversation analysis and multimodality in focus. In her master’s dissertation she wrote about the representation of gender in children’s magazines and showed how girls are portrayed as pretty princesses and boys as strong superheroes. She is also interested in rhetoric and teaches speech and rhetorical analysis.
Abstract
Being humorous is more than just being able to tell jokes. The uptake of the joke is as important in order to be funny. I have examined the Swedish humour panel show Parlamentet in a conversationand multimodal-centered analysis. I argue that the representation of gender does play a part in who is able to be humorous, as I see humour as a group achievement. In my examples of women negatively assessing or teasing men on the panel, I am interested in how the other participants react and play along the humorous story. I conclude that women and men tend to have different expectations on who will be able to continue the humorous story and that the distribution of attention in the panel reflect those expectations. The women’s jokes do not render in as much laughter or attention from the panel as the men’s attempt of being humorous.
About the author
Hanna Söderlund is a doctoral student in applied linguistics at Umeå University in Sweden. Her thesis is about gender representation in humour. She is interested in how the participants of a Swedish humour panel show interact with each other, with conversation analysis and multimodality in focus. In her master’s dissertation she wrote about the representation of gender in children’s magazines and showed how girls are portrayed as pretty princesses and boys as strong superheroes. She is also interested in rhetoric and teaches speech and rhetorical analysis.
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