Chapter 4 Contextualizing Gaijin
The interface between humor and identities is bidirectional (see Sinkeviciute 2019b). On the one hand, humor provides a means for participants in social interaction to represent perceptions about both their own and other identities. On the other hand, identities – along with their associated ideologies, stereotypes, and assumptions – provide context, content, and targets for humor. This chapter is primarily concerned with the latter link, that is, how social assumptions about gaijin and nihonjin are made relevant within local interactional events in ways that provide resources for doing humor. This examination thus uncovers some of the ways that gaijin and nihonjin are represented in interaction, consequently ...
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