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100			_aHumonen, Kristina and Whittle, Andrea _954976
245			_aJust relax and ram it in’: Dimensions of power in workplace sexual humour
260			_aOrganization
300			_a32(3), Apr, 2025: p.345-376
520			_aSexual humour has been observed in organisations where it is actively encouraged and in organisations where it is officially proscribed. In this paper, we use Interactional Sociolinguistics to analyse fifteen ‘live’ recordings of walkie-talkie radio conversations in a Finnish restaurant where sexual behaviour was officially proscribed. Our findings illustrate how sexual humour can function as a means of ‘bonding’ or ‘biting’ in a mixed-gender work community, with each exchange carrying distinct power implications. Theoretically, we build on Butler’s notion of ‘linguistic injury’ by proposing that the nature and extent of the ‘injury’ associated with sexual humour varies depending on the function, target, initiator and response. We develop a conceptual framework that positions sexual humour within its interactional, organisational and societal context and which illuminates the distinct power relations enacted by sexual humour involving resistance, subjugation and exclusion.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13505084231201277
650			_aDirty jokes, Gender performances, interactional sociolinguistics, Linguistic injury, Organizational discourse, Power relations, Sexual banter, Sexual humor, Workplace interaction. _954977
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