There are many ways of skinning a cat, my lord: humor in the Malaysian adversarial courtroom

• Main Authors: Noraini Ibrahim,, Radha M.K Nambiar,
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2011
• Online Access: http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3221/1/9-Noraini_Ibrahim_et_al.pdf; http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3221/; http://www.ukm.my/ppbl/3L/3LCurrentIssues.html

This paper examines verbal humor in courtroom interaction in Malaysia. The adversarial courtroom is normally described as a site of struggle as disputes are presented and argued, while frames of reality are built and challenged. Social actors construct, deconstruct and reconstruct narratives and at...