Abstract
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.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 5-26 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | Journal of Japanese Linguistics |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - May 1 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Research funding: This research has been supported by a University of Minnesota Imagine Fund Annual Award for “Why is eating pleasurable?” and a University of Minnesota Grant-in-Aid of Research, Artistry and Scholarship (“Dynamic construction of eating norms while eating and talking about food over a meal”) 2017–2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100007249 .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston.
Keywords
- food attitudes
- interaction
- language and food
- onomatopoeia