You Can't Be Serious! Putting Humor to WorkYou Can't Be Serious! Putting Humor to Work provides a compelling argument for taking humor, laughter and play more seriously in our work lives. The book offers more than 200 ideas on how to add humor to your workplace and includes dozens of examples from businesses that put humor to work.
This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to humor in interaction. It is a rich collection of essays by an international array of scholars representing various theoretical perspectives, but all concerned with interactional aspects of humor. The contributors are scholars active both in the interdisciplinary area of humor studies and in adjacent disciplines such as linguistic pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, gender and translation studies.
Set in a drug-and-alcohol addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, this epic comedy by the author of The Girl with Curious Hair snowballs farce, drug abuse, heartbreak, advertising, tennis, philosophy, math, slapstick humor, and profound drama in a story that is never less than edge-of-your-seat compelling.
