Humor, Identity, and Belonging : Constructing the Foreign in American-Japanese Interaction

Title:

Author:

Moody, Stephen J., author.

ISBN:

9783110759877

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIV, 190 p.)

Series:

Language Play and Creativity [LPC] , 7

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

Subject Term:

Belonging (Social psychology).

Ethnic wit and humor-Japan.

Ethnomethodology.

Group identity.

Intercultural communication-Japan.

National characteristics, American-Humor.

National characteristics, Japanese-Humor.

Wit and humor-Social aspects-Japan.

Ethnomethodologie.

Humor.

Interkulturelle Interaktion.