Occupation

Question 1

Wenger

Answer 1

-Communities of practice
-Defines them as a group of people who share a concern or passion for something they do.
-Learn how to do it better as the interact regularly.

Question 2

Morreall, 1991

Answer 2

-Workplace humour benefitted employment relationships by increasing job satisfaction, creativity and even productivity.

Question 3

Marth and Holmes, 2007

Answer 3

-Workplace leaders and their team members use humour to collaborate in constructing not only a particular type of workplace culture, but also a leadership style appropriate to their particular community of practice.

Question 4

Koester

Answer 4

-Studied ‘phatic talk’
-Led to more productive workforce
-Small talk
-Phatic token- a single example of a small talk utterance.
-Self orientated token- information relating to yourself.
-Other orientated token- utterance expressing an interest in somebody else.

Question 5

John Swales

Answer 5

-Define discourse community as having members who share: common goals, communicate internally, use specialised lexis and possess the required level of knowledge to participate.
-Always changing so new people=fresh ideas.

Question 6

Drew and Heritage, 1993

Answer 6

-Members of discourse community share inferential framework.
-Implicit ways of thinking, communicating and behaving.
-CEO- formal manner with range of genres.
-Employees- more likely to converge accents to CEO/boss.
-Summarised the differences between everyday conversation and workplace talk.