Virgins,Terrorists, and Ten Children: Immigrants' Humorous Play with Ethnic Stereotypes in Bonding with Danes in the Workplace

Drawing on fieldwork in a multi‐ethnic workplace (an industrial kitchen in Denmark), this article explores immigrants' self‐directed ethnic humor in collegial relationships with Danes as it spontaneously develops and plays out in everyday work settings. Approaching ethnic humor from a symbolic interactionist perspective rather than adopting the dominant conflict approach, this article emphasizes the bonding functions of ethnic humor. The article argues that immigrants' engagement in playful behavior with ethnic stereotypes in interactions with Danes is a form of “impression management” in which they defuse ethnic stereotypes and dissociate themselves from them by building joking relationships in the workplace with Danes. A video abstract is available at https://tinyurl.com/esholdt .     

论喜剧艺术的本质

历史上陈旧生活方式的灭亡是喜剧得以形成的客观基础;喜剧主角中所表现的人物是历史的丑角,体现了人的非本质;喜剧是一个不断解蔽启真的过程,其中充满了思想性和智慧性;从喜剧艺术的审美心理而言,喜剧艺术更多的带有愉悦性,迎合了人们趋乐避苦的心理本能;就喜剧艺术的审美效果而言,喜剧艺术的本质还在于它的可笑性.     

舟山闲话戏说

方言是一种文化遗产，并在局部地区继续使用。本文采用“戏说”笔调，结合地方风土人情，对舟山方言若干词语从文化学民俗学角度进行新的解读，力图发掘其悠久的传统信息与历史人文精神，为方言研究提供一种新的思维模式和写作文本。     

闹洞房习俗的文化内涵及功能分析

本文对闹洞房习俗的存在形态、产生原因、文化内涵及诸多功能进行了分析。文章指出,它是原始民众从非个体婚制向个体婚制过渡中产生的一种象征性仪式,以此来完成女子的“赎身”,确立丈夫对妻子绝对占有的社会性认同。随着人类社会的发展及民众生活需求的改变,其原始功能已逐渐退化,而由此衍生的各种习俗惯制却留存下来,并不断适应民众生活,又派生出众多新的功能,如祝福、娱乐、教育、帮助新人建立感情、乞福禳灾、为未婚男女交往了解创造机会、警诫等。     

The politics of joking: narratives of humour and joking among adults with Asperger’s syndrome

The purpose of this article is to analyse how humour and narratives about humour are used in a natural group of adults with Asperger’s syndrome. Narratives about humour and use of humour in the group are analysed from a discursive psychological perspective, informed by insights from both disability studies and critical autism studies. The setting of the research is ethnographic fieldwork in an educational setting in Sweden. In the paper, I show the use of three storylines among a natural group of people with autism (PWA) when talking about humour: the storyline of humourless PWA that dominates within Swedish society; and two alternatives, a storyline of alternative humour among PWA and another storyline in line with the social model of disability, of neurotypical humour or disabling humour. When invoking these two alternative storylines, PWA challenge both the humourlessness storyline and the lack of social accessibility within mainstream neurotypical settings.     

“黄金时代”的重写与敞开——王小波的写作与现代新理性的重建

鲁迅的《狂人日记》奠定了中国现代文学及现代民族的压抑性情感对立结构。这个结构的两个基本版本在以后的演变中 ,一个遭到贬抑 ,另一个则不断得到强化和突出 ,从而对中国现代文学及现代民族情感产生了持久的结构性影响。或许到了王小波 ,写作才真正开始了对此结构的实质性的艺术超越。本文试图将《黄金时代》放在此历史话语的背景下 ,来细致地分析王小波写作对国人情感的解放意义与其经验理性和文本叙述之间的关系     

Laughing matters: humour as advocacy in education for the disabled

Humour is an advocacy tool used by women organisers in Sāmoa, an Independent State in the Pacific. Examining the use of humour (jokes, sarcasm, banter, and clowning) in social action research reveal creative ways that advocates and activists can challenge systems of normalcy. This paper examines humour as an informal conversational and non-confrontational strategy used by (non)disabled Indigenous women to support the creation of schools for disabled students. Thematic analysis of the data shows that the women’s use of humour supports their agenda of transforming exclusive structures in education and policy. Using humour as an organising strategy also shifts mainstream thinking about disabled people as easy targets of offensive and degrading humour. The paper explores humour as an organising strategy that provides new supports into inclusive spaces for the education of disabled people in the global South.     

舟山闲话戏说（续）

方言是一种文化遗产，并在局部地区继续使用。本文采用“戏说”笔调，结合地方风土人情，对舟山方言若干词语从文化学民俗学角度进行新的解读，力图发掘其悠久的传统信息与历史人文精神，为方言研究提供一种新的思维模式和写作文本。     

洮岷“花儿”的戏谑事象与戏谑理论探讨

洮岷花儿以古朴的民歌样式和丰富的民俗文化的完美结合而显示其独特个性。花儿会是洮岷人民盛大的狂欢节日。田野资料进一步说明 ,“狂欢”是洮岷花儿的一般性格 ,戏谑事象在民间生活中的广泛存在是这一性格的重要内容。对戏谑理论的探讨和建构是基于实地的田野材料。这些初步的理论也许对认识现实的民间文艺和文化现象中的戏谑事象会有一些借鉴意义。