South Africa: Laughing To Death - Joking As Support Amid Stigma For Zulu-Speaking South Africans Living With HIV

South Africa: Laughing To Death - Joking As Support Amid Stigma For Zulu-Speaking South Africans Living With HIV   Steven P. Black, 2012   Moving beyond the truism that laughter is the best medicine, this article integrates multiple linguistic anthropological models of humor to theorize why joking is so often used to address issues at or beyond the boundaries of what is considered acceptable to talk about in most other contexts. The article analyzes joking about HIV among members of a...

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