embarrassing bodily functions and paraphernalia required as part of treatment), sometimes via co-constructed fantasy scenarios developed over several posts. 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.Ī corpus informed analysis reveals that characteristic forms of humour make fun of cancer and its consequences (e.g. How and why they do this has received little systematic attention to date. ![]() Yet people with cancer can find relief in making light of their often life-threatening situations. ![]() ![]() In the context of cancer, humour and joking can still be seen as socially unacceptable.
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