Finding the unfunny funny
just wanted to vent these (what I found) funny exchanges I had recently. I had a choice about laughing or crying over them, so I just chose to laugh and run with that. So so I went to the chemo wa...
Forum Discussion
Dark humour is a default that works for some of us, the patients.
Online there's a paper from the Journal of Pragmatics and this is part of the abstract
Copy and paste from Laughing at cancer: Humour, empowerment, solidarity and coping online
Online there's a paper from the Journal of Pragmatics and this is part of the abstract
Copy and paste from Laughing at cancer: Humour, empowerment, solidarity and coping online
Abstract
In the context of cancer, humour and joking can still be seen as socially unacceptable. Yet people with cancer can find relief in making light of their often life-threatening situations. How and why they do this has received little systematic attention to date. This paper begins to address this gap by exploring 530,055 words of online patient–patient interactions on a thread explicitly dedicated to humour within a UK-based cancer forum.
The website is https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378216616301795