John Benjamins Publishing Company
‘It hurts to hear that’
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Gavin Ken Furukawa
Abstract
This study looks at the interactional expression of emotions in a Japanese television talk show involving a Japanese cross-dresser, a Japanese comedian, the production staff, and 50 foreign residents from various countries living in Japan. Building on previous work on embedded frames in Japanese television, this chapter shows how emotions are used by the show’s participants and producers as resources across various interactional frames to create a collaborative discourse for entertainment. In addition to sequential conversation analysis, formulation analysis, indexicality, footing, and framing are used to show the various ways that emotions are discursively brought into being through various textual and verbal resources as well as non-lexical means such as jeering and laughter.
Abstract
This study looks at the interactional expression of emotions in a Japanese television talk show involving a Japanese cross-dresser, a Japanese comedian, the production staff, and 50 foreign residents from various countries living in Japan. Building on previous work on embedded frames in Japanese television, this chapter shows how emotions are used by the show’s participants and producers as resources across various interactional frames to create a collaborative discourse for entertainment. In addition to sequential conversation analysis, formulation analysis, indexicality, footing, and framing are used to show the various ways that emotions are discursively brought into being through various textual and verbal resources as well as non-lexical means such as jeering and laughter.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Transcription conventions vii
- Introduction 1
- Smiling together, laughing together 29
- Like Godzilla 57
- Orienting to a co-participant’s emotion in French L2 87
- On doing Japanese awe in English talk 111
- Emotional stances and interactional competence 131
- Negative self-categorization, stance, affect, and affiliation in autobiographical storytelling 153
- Affective formulations in multilingual healthcare settings 177
- Formulating and scaling emotionality in L2 qualitative research interviews 203
- ‘It hurts to hear that’ 237
- Humor, laughter, and affect in multilingual comedy performances in Hawai‘i 267
- The construction of emotion in multilingual computer-mediated interaction 289
- Author index 313
- Subject index 319
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Transcription conventions vii
- Introduction 1
- Smiling together, laughing together 29
- Like Godzilla 57
- Orienting to a co-participant’s emotion in French L2 87
- On doing Japanese awe in English talk 111
- Emotional stances and interactional competence 131
- Negative self-categorization, stance, affect, and affiliation in autobiographical storytelling 153
- Affective formulations in multilingual healthcare settings 177
- Formulating and scaling emotionality in L2 qualitative research interviews 203
- ‘It hurts to hear that’ 237
- Humor, laughter, and affect in multilingual comedy performances in Hawai‘i 267
- The construction of emotion in multilingual computer-mediated interaction 289
- Author index 313
- Subject index 319
