Laughter: A Communication Strategy in Business Meeting between Thai and Burmese Professionals

Autor/inn/en	Kanchanapoomi, Tabtip; Trakulkasemsuk, Wannapa
Titel	Laughter: A Communication Strategy in Business Meeting between Thai and Burmese Professionals
Quelle	In: rEFLections, 27 (2020) 1, S.22-43 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1513–5934
Schlagwörter	Humor; Communication Strategies; Business Communication; Asians; Intercultural Communication; Ethnography; Guidelines; Meetings; Work Environment; International Trade; Business English; English (Second Language); Foreign Countries; Burma + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Humoristische Darstellung; Kommunikationsstrategie; Unternehmenskommunikation; Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Ethnografie; Richtlinien; Meeting; Tagung; Arbeitsmilieu; Trade; International relations; Handel; Internationale Beziehungen; Business; English; English language; Wirtschaft; Englisch; Wirtschaftsenglisch; English as second language; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Ausland
Abstract	Laughter is a common feature found in daily conversations as an element showing amusement. However, laughter can also appear in serious talk such as business meetings (Murata, 2007; Markaki, et al., 2010). This paper scrutinizes laughter use between Thai and Burmese participants in a business meeting held in Yangon, Myanmar, and examines laughter functions and factors stimulating laughter to occur. The business meeting data was collected using the ethnographic method - a participant observation, extensive field notes, interviews and audio recordings. The data were analyzed based on the framework of laughter adapted from Hayakawa (2003) and Murata & Hori (2007); the findings reveal that laughter was used as a communication strategy and occurred in the meeting both in a relaxed atmosphere and in a serious discussion with different intentions - to have fun, to make fun of work, to ease the tension and to threaten other interlocutors. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi School of Liberal Arts. 126 Pracha Uthit Road, Bang Mod, Thung Khru, Bangkok, Thailand 10140. Tel: +66-2470-8756; Fax: +66-2428-3375; Web site: https://so05.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/reflections/index
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01