ERIC Number: EJ961484
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011
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Humor, Rapport, and Uncomfortable Moments in Interactions with Adults with Traumatic Brain Injury
Kovarsky, Dana; Schiemer, Christine; Murray, Allison
Topics in Language Disorders, v31 n4 p325-335 Oct-Dec 2011
We examined uncomfortable moments that damaged rapport during group interactions between college students in training to become speech-language pathologists and adults with traumatic brain injury. The students worked as staff in a community-based program affiliated with a university training program that functioned as a recreational gathering place for any adult with traumatic brain injury who wished to attend. Analysis revealed the interactional difficulties experienced by the student staff as they tried to manage offensive humor produced by an individual with traumatic brain injury without interfering with rapport. Nevertheless, successive instances of sexually explicit humor resulted in rapport being damaged to such an extent that it eventually derailed the entire interaction. Results are discussed in terms of those aspects of context outside the communicative intentions of any of the interactants that contributed to this breach in rapport.
Descriptors: Head Injuries, Speech Language Pathology, Interpersonal Relationship, Humor, Brain, Neurological Impairments, Interaction, Adults, Group Activities, College Students, Allied Health Personnel, Community Programs, Recreational Activities, Sexuality
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Language: English
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