LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 6 June 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
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         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
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Social Construct on Doctor-Patient Relation
A Study of Tamil Jokes

L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.

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Humour and Jokes

Humour is a unique human endeavour as speech. The sense of humour makes one’s life smooth and healthy. The Tamil proverbs vaayviTTu siricca nooy viTTu pookum (if you laugh with your mouth open, that is, if you laugh heartily, the disease or pain will go away), tunpam varum velaiyile sirinka (when there is sorrow, laugh), etc. exemplify the relation between humour and stress-free healthy life. Recognizing the importance of humour, all societies have a social sanction to tease and make fun of certain kinship relation/s. Through humour, one can fulfil several functions, both at the individual level and the societal level. Humour can be used to attack existing standards and values and to promote social bonding.

Humour is the only mechanism which can be used to express and demonstrate both hostility and familiarity. Humour is some kind of ability to perceive and express incongruities or peculiarities present in a situation or character. It is frequently used to illustrate some fundamental absurdity in human nature or conduct whereas jokes, according to New Webster English Dictionary, are “Something said or done to amuse or provoke laughter; something funny or humorous; especially, a brief usually oral narrative designed to twist or denouement” (1961, p.1220).

The Focus of This Paper: Doctor-Patient Relation through Jokes In this paper an attempt is made to study the social construct of doctor patient relation through jokes. The data for analysis was collected for three months from Ananda Vikatan, a Tamil weekly magazine. This weekly describes certain important events that had taken place some twenty five years ago and the jokes appeared in those times along with the current events and jokes. The jokes related to doctor-patient relation alone are taken up for this study.

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L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Central Institute of Indian Languages
Ministry of Human Resource Development
Government of India
Manasagangothri, Hunsur Road
Mysore 570006
Karnataka
India
ramamoorthyciil@gmail.com
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