Conversational humor among stroke survivors

Robin L. Heath; Lee X. Blonder

doi:10.1515/humr.2003.007

Conversational humor among stroke survivors

Robin L. Heath
, Lee X. Blonder

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Most humor research involving brain-damaged participants relies on laboratory-based neurolinguistic methods with clinician-selected stimuli. In this study, speech data from videotaped interviews was used to examine interactive humor generated by stroke survivors, their spouses, and an interviewer. We hypothesized that incongruities evident in the humor will expand and enrich the meaning of stroke survivors' humor. Our data indicated that the humor, as a way to talk about disabilities, was a subtle and pervasive element in the conversation of stroke survivors. Among our participants, humor was used as a way of re-asserting autonomy and self-esteem and maneuvering social distance by pointing to boundaries and creating, confirming or denying allegiance.

Idioma original	English
Páginas (desde-hasta)	91-106
Número de páginas	16
Publicación	Humor
Volumen	16
N.º	1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1515/humr.2003.007
Estado	Published - 2003

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Funding Information:
Correspondence address: [email protected] We wish to thank Amy Kirkpatrick, who conducted the interviews, Robert King and Justin Yandell who coded the interviews, Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation Hospital and University of Kentucky Hospital for permitting us to recruit informants from their facilities, and the people of Kentucky who participated in the study. The research was supported in part by a grant from University Funds, University of Kentucky, to Dr. Robin Heath, and a FIRST Award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders (R29NS290882) to Dr. Lee Blonder.

Financiación

Correspondence address: [email protected] We wish to thank Amy Kirkpatrick, who conducted the interviews, Robert King and Justin Yandell who coded the interviews, Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation Hospital and University of Kentucky Hospital for permitting us to recruit informants from their facilities, and the people of Kentucky who participated in the study. The research was supported in part by a grant from University Funds, University of Kentucky, to Dr. Robin Heath, and a FIRST Award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders (R29NS290882) to Dr. Lee Blonder.

Financiadores	Número del financiador
University of Kentucky Research Funds
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke	R29NS290882
University of Kentucky

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Language and Linguistics
Sociology and Political Science
General Psychology
Linguistics and Language

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