Publications

Publication details [#53579]

Evans Davies, Catherine. 2010. Joking as boundary negotiation among “good old boys”: “White trash” as a social category at the bottom of the Southern working class in Alabama. Humor 23 (2) : 179–200.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

joke | race | social status | talk show | worker

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This study reveals how the joking interaction between the two hosts of a popular Alabama morning radio talk show, and the joking with members of the studio audience are embedded in sociolinguistic and cultural dimensions of the working class American South, and in the 'red neck' joking cycle.