Intertextuality, mediation, and members’ categories in focus groups on humor

Toshiaki Furukawa | University of Hawai‘i at Manoa

This paper extends studies on intertextuality into a more explicitly interactional context. I examine the actual process of intertextuality where comedy audiences construct recombinant selves through making sense of various membership categories as well as through making sense of a certain kind of comedy. The examination of this process requires receptive research; however, most studies leave the interpretive process unanalyzed. Conducting both a sequential analysis and a membership categorization analysis will reveal that categories are not “pre-formed” but “per-formed” in situ. To illustrate these points, I report on a receptive study of Local comedy in Hawai‘i.

Keywords: receptive study, mediation, intertextuality, conversation analysis, humor, membership categorization, doing being Local

Published online: 17 November 2010
https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.1.2.04fur

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