Painful to playful

Quotidian frames in the conversational discourse of older Japanese women

Bibliographic Data

ID2868030
AuthorsY Matsumoto (0000-0002-1286-3829, Stanford University, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume40
Issue5
Pages591-616
Publication date2011-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage in Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047404511000698
OpenAlexW2155070943
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited42

Conversations about serious life changes in old age may be expected to sound painful, but data of conversational narratives by elderly Japanese women even on topics related to illnesses or the death of a husband show highly engaging, lively exchanges, frequently accompanied by humor and laughter among the participants. The common feature in the conversations recounting psychologically intense experiences is a shift to detailed depictions of specific scenes from the quotidian perspective. This phenomenon, which I call quotidian reframing, is signaled by linguistic and paralinguistic quotidian framing cues. Quotidian reframing can function as a useful discourse strategy to relieve tension and let the participants regain the feeling or stance of quotidian self, the identity that they consider "normal." A detailed account of the quotidian frame draws on such ideas as frame, footing, lamination, and positioning. (Discourse analysis, frame, identity, humor and laughter, older Japanese women

Aesthetics · Art · Cognitive reframing · Epistemology · Feeling · Framing (construction) · Identity (music) · Laughter · Linguistics · Narrative · Perspective (graphical) · Phenomenon · Sociology · Visual arts · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Gender Studies · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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