Doing friendship through conversational humour : A case study of spontaneous conversational interactions between two Japanese young men who identify as close friends

Abstract

The paper discusses findings from the analysis of conversational humour used by two young male friends. It shows that they have developed a specific group humour style and focuses on two types of highly ritualized conversational activities that emerged from the analysis as salient and co-constitutive of their interactions.

Keywords

• conversational humour
• conversational interaction
• doing friendship
• Japanese
• manzai