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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter De Gruyter Mouton eBook Package 2024
• VerfasserIn: Moody, Stephen J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Series: Language Play and Creativity [LPC] , 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIV, 190 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110759877; 9783111438047
• ISSN: 2363-7749
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110759877
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Stephen J. Moody.

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.