Annotated Bibliography
Habib, R. (2008). Humor and disagreement: Identity construction and cross-cultural enrichment. Journal of Pragmatics, 40(6), 1117-1145. doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2008.02.005
Habib argues that past studies concentrating on disagreements and humor only focus on the differences between language and not cross-cultural aspects. Habib focuses on four different cultures and how their cultural backgrounds affect their humor and behavior towards one another. Habib’s case study focuses on four women from Syria, Portugal, Greece, and the United States. Habib recorded conversations by sitting in on language lessons taught by the Greek woman. During these gatherings, Habib would record before, in, and after the sessions to obtain viable …show more content…
The author argues that social backgrounds can affect how issues of racism can be interpreted and misinterpreted. He argues that European Americans often view racism through a screen of “whiteness,” the excuse that color does not matter in this world and everyone has equal opportunity, when in reality oppression still exists and events of racism in the world have not ceased. The audience for this article is most likely African American people because most of the background information is directed towards their culture and the hardships they face. To collect data the author acquired volunteers for his experiment by posting advertisements and asking any colleagues to assist in his study. After gathering enough volunteers, the author split the groups up based on race to eliminate the possibility of opinions being swayed, however, there was one mixed racial group. After organizing the groups, the author gave them comic strips from the Boondocks and Jump Start series to look over and share their opinions about the topic in interviews. The opinions of the groups differed based on their background history. The author was also able to support his theory of “whiteness” since most of the European Americans in the interviews used the excuse that all people have equal opportunity and color should not really matter. The only issue I found in the article was that the author seemed to have a more respectful attitude towards African American people than towards European American people, but this could be because the author only presented facts on the mistreatment of African Americans. Overall, the article was well written, provided essential background information, and the experiment allowed for accurate data. I plan on using this article to provide examples of how African Americans interpret the television series The Boondocks and how people with
Habib, R. (2008). Humor and disagreement: Identity construction and cross-cultural enrichment. Journal of Pragmatics, 40(6), 1117-1145. doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2008.02.005
Habib argues that past studies concentrating on disagreements and humor only focus on the differences between language and not cross-cultural aspects. Habib focuses on four different cultures and how their cultural backgrounds affect their humor and behavior towards one another. Habib’s case study focuses on four women from Syria, Portugal, Greece, and the United States. Habib recorded conversations by sitting in on language lessons taught by the Greek woman. During these gatherings, Habib would record before, in, and after the sessions to obtain viable …show more content…
The author argues that social backgrounds can affect how issues of racism can be interpreted and misinterpreted. He argues that European Americans often view racism through a screen of “whiteness,” the excuse that color does not matter in this world and everyone has equal opportunity, when in reality oppression still exists and events of racism in the world have not ceased. The audience for this article is most likely African American people because most of the background information is directed towards their culture and the hardships they face. To collect data the author acquired volunteers for his experiment by posting advertisements and asking any colleagues to assist in his study. After gathering enough volunteers, the author split the groups up based on race to eliminate the possibility of opinions being swayed, however, there was one mixed racial group. After organizing the groups, the author gave them comic strips from the Boondocks and Jump Start series to look over and share their opinions about the topic in interviews. The opinions of the groups differed based on their background history. The author was also able to support his theory of “whiteness” since most of the European Americans in the interviews used the excuse that all people have equal opportunity and color should not really matter. The only issue I found in the article was that the author seemed to have a more respectful attitude towards African American people than towards European American people, but this could be because the author only presented facts on the mistreatment of African Americans. Overall, the article was well written, provided essential background information, and the experiment allowed for accurate data. I plan on using this article to provide examples of how African Americans interpret the television series The Boondocks and how people with