LING 50 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Aamer Rahman, Cisgender, Netflix
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Discourse created with the intent to amuse an audience and elicit laughter. Laughter signals agreement with the ideas expressed. Mediating potentially negative reactions to the speaker"s behavior. Necessarily socio-politically contextualized but may have varying degrees of critical reflexivity. Actor uses their voice and body (and perhaps props, sets, or other people) Tell a story with a specific message. Genre: refers to language with shared structure and shared socal function/purpose in some way. Generalized or abstracted model of discourse production and reception (briggs and bauman 1992) Conventions of discourse that a society establishes as a way of acting together" (miller 1984) Does not create new social divisions, but works to restore the audience"s belief that the status quo is natural and appropriate (santa ana 2009) Stereotype-based humor increases tolerance for or acceptance of discriminatory/derogatory ideologies about others. Audience share laughter at the expense of members of non- dominant groups (minoritized people/identities as the butt of the joke)
