Response is an effective tool for exercising power in humour, since it can make a person seem funny. In the same way, lack of response unfunny. this article I argue that failed jokes female skiing pundit on TV humourless and due to other interlocutors refraining from giving adequate responses. The material sports programme about cross-country Swedish Television. aim case study find out how exer...

Thirty patients selected at random from a pacemaker clinic were interviewed to gain an understanding of how psychological symptoms in these patients related to their cardiac condition. In 20% veiled depression or even a wish to die was elicited. Joking, fantasies, and denial were common psychological mechanisms used to adapt to their illness and the pacemaker itself. A dramatic example of attem...

US physician Martin Duke argues that it served as a badge of protection.* This idea also surfaced in Sinclair Lewis’s novel Arrowsmith: ‘The Doctor, and the Doctor alone, was safe by night in the slum called “the Arbor”. His black bag was a pass. Policemen saluted him, prostitutes bowed to him without mockery, saloon-keepers called out “Evenin’ Doc” and hold-up men stood back in doorways to let...