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Humor, Identity, and Belonging : Constructing the Foreign in American-Japanese Interaction / Stephen J. Moody.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moody, Stephen J., author.
- Series:
- Language play and creativity ; Volume 7.
- Language Play and Creativity [LPC] Series ; Volume 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Belonging (Social psychology).
- Ethnic wit and humor--Japan.
- Ethnic wit and humor.
- Ethnomethodology.
- Group identity.
- Intercultural communication--Japan.
- Intercultural communication.
- National characteristics, American--Humor.
- National characteristics, American.
- National characteristics, Japanese--Humor.
- National characteristics, Japanese.
- Wit and humor--Social aspects--Japan.
- Wit and humor.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (XIV, 190 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2024]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- 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.
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 3-11-075987-X
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