Chapter 6 Categorizing Gaijin
In Chapter 4, Interactional Sociolinguistics (IS) illustrates how stereotypes, beliefs, and presumptions about the social identities of participants are contextualized in ways that result in humor, while in Chapter 5 Conversation Analysis (CA) outlines the turn-by-turn progression of humor in which representations of identities are made relevant. In explicating the humor-identity interface, we can think of IS as providing a view of the interactional processes through which identity categories are indexed while CA highlights local actions used to build up humor and identities in and through the deployment of identities in interactional sequence. The separate analytical focus on category versus sequence results ...
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