How is laughter used to create and reinforce food attitudes in Japanese Dairy Taster Brunch conversations

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ID21477181
AuthorsPolly E Szatrowski (University of Minnesota, corresponding author), Polly Szatrowski (University of Minnesota)
Year2022
Volume38
Issue1
Pages5-26
Publication date2022-05-25
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Japanese Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0197-3150 • E-ISSN: 2512-1413
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/jjl-2022-2048
OpenAlexW4226071103
LanguageEN
References cited21

This paper investigates how participants use laughter to create and reinforce food attitudes in conversations over a Dairy Taster Brunch. Previous conversation analytic research on Japanese conversations about food has focused on food assessments, identification, and categorization. This research addresses the following questions: 1) How does food trigger humor and laughter in conversations over food? 2) What about the situation elicits laughter? 3) How is humor and laughter used to create and reinforce food attitudes in the conversational interaction? and 4) What kinds of food attitudes are created using humor and laughter in talk about food? Results show that food attitudes are not lodged in the individual but rather are created and reinforced moment-by-moment in temporally unfolding multimodal conversational interaction. This research contributes to the growing body of research on language and food, sheds light on the relation between laughter and food, and has implications for healthy eating, and cross-cultural communication

Categorization · Conversation · Laughter · Communication · Computer Science · Humor Studies and Applications · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology · Social Psychology

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