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Humor, Identity, and Belonging : Constructing the Foreign in American-Japanese Interaction / Stephen J. Moody.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Language Play and Creativity [LPC] ; 7Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2024]Copyright date: 2024Description: 1 online resource (XIV, 190 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110759716
  • 9783110760033
  • 9783110759877
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.442956
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of transcription symbols -- List of abbreviations in interlinear glosses -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Humor and identity -- Chapter 3. Defining Gaijin -- Chapter 4. Contextualizing Gaijin -- Chapter 5. Performing Gaijin -- Chapter 6. Categorizing Gaijin -- Chapter 7. Gaijin humor, interculturality, and belonging -- References -- Index
Summary: This book presents an ethnographic perspective on the intersection of humor, identity, and belonging. Based on recorded interactions between Americans and Japanese, it explores how beliefs and stereotypes surrounding gaijin ‘foreigner’ identities create various types of humor such as mockery, sarcasm, and conversational jokes. Through this analysis, the study also discusses how identity-focused humor impacts participants’ understandings of interculturality and social belonging. In particular, it argues that while "being an outsider" can be marginalizing, humor allows cultural differences to become a basis for developing inclusion and social unity, in part through the recognition of shared norms and values.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of transcription symbols -- List of abbreviations in interlinear glosses -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Humor and identity -- Chapter 3. Defining Gaijin -- Chapter 4. Contextualizing Gaijin -- Chapter 5. Performing Gaijin -- Chapter 6. Categorizing Gaijin -- Chapter 7. Gaijin humor, interculturality, and belonging -- References -- Index

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This book presents an ethnographic perspective on the intersection of humor, identity, and belonging. Based on recorded interactions between Americans and Japanese, it explores how beliefs and stereotypes surrounding gaijin ‘foreigner’ identities create various types of humor such as mockery, sarcasm, and conversational jokes. Through this analysis, the study also discusses how identity-focused humor impacts participants’ understandings of interculturality and social belonging. In particular, it argues that while "being an outsider" can be marginalizing, humor allows cultural differences to become a basis for developing inclusion and social unity, in part through the recognition of shared norms and values.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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