Humour at work: conviviality through language play in Singapore’s multicultural workplaces
Humour at work: conviviality through language play in Singapore’s multicultural workplaces
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工作中的幽默：新加坡多元文化工作场所中通过语言游戏营造欢乐氛围
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2019
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S. Velayutham
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A. Wise;S. Velayutham
摘要幽默在人际关系中起着重要的作用。虽然关于工作场所幽默的学术研究很多，但在非西方但文化多样的环境中，关于工作场所幽默的文献很少。这篇文章着眼于幽默在多民族的新加坡工作场所雇用公民和临时移民，特别关注蓝领和服务工人。我们认为，新加坡式英语形成了一个语言和听觉的幽默模板，工人通过语言游戏，是没有积极的贬低幽默，经常在英语圈的特点车间幽默的桥梁显着的语言，种族和文化差异。演变成一种幽默的都会语弗兰卡（Pennycook，A.，和E.乙次2015.都市语言学：城市中的语言。伦敦：伦敦。）这是新加坡多元化工作场所日常多元文化运作的具体方式。
ABSTRACT Humour plays an important role in making and mediating human relationships. While scholarship on workplace humour is voluminous, there is scarce literature on interactional humour in non-Western yet culturally diverse settings. This article looks at humour in multi-ethnic Singaporean workplaces employing both citizens and temporary migrants, with a particular focus on blue collar and service workers. We argue that Singlish forms a linguistic and aural humour template for workers to bridge significant language, racial and cultural differences through language play that is devoid of the aggressive disparagement humour that frequently characterizes shop-floor humour in the Anglosphere. What evolves is a humorous metrolingua franca (Pennycook, A., and E. Otsuji. 2015. Metrolingualism: Language in the City. London: Routledge.) that is specific to the way everyday multiculturalism operates in diverse Singaporean workplaces.