In:Bonding through Context: Language and interactional alignment in Japanese situated discourse
Edited by Risako Ide and Kaori Hata
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 314] 2020
► pp. 173–196
Chapter 8Micro-bonding moments
Laughter in the joint construction of mutual affiliation in initial-encounter interactions by first and second language speakers of Japanese
Published online: 3 December 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.314.08bus
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.314.08bus
Abstract
In the present study, I
examine the interaction of one pair of
participants (a first and second language speaker
of Japanese), which is part of a larger corpus of
dyadic initial interactional data gathered by
video recording pairs of participants asked to
participate in a topical discussion task. Bringing
to bear on these data a microethnographic
methodology, I show some of the functions of
laughter deployed by the participants. In
particular, the findings of the analyses indicate
that, in my data, laughter was used both to
indicate the frame or tenor of the interaction, to
display an orientation to and interactionally
co-constitute a moral order, and to negotiate and
coordinate joint participation in a next course of
action.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Data, participants, methodology
- 3.Analysis
- 3.1Co-determination of a course of action
- 3.2Being naughty
- 4.Discussion
- 5.Concluding remarks
Notes References
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