Ταυτότητες νομιμοποίησης και αντίστασης σε χιουμοριστικές αφηγήσεις μαθητών/τριών της ελληνικής ως Γ2

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to explore how adult learners of Greek as a second language construct their identities through humor. Analyzing 135 written humorous narratives with Bamberg’s (1997) narrative positioning model and the knowledge resources of script opposition and target from the General Theory of Verbal Humor (Attardo 2001), we detect two main categories: (a) narratives of legitimizing identities and (b) narratives of resistance identities . We discuss one narrative of each category in which narrators position themselves towards aspects of the Greek sociolinguistic context. Humor emerges as a basic tool for identity construction and stance expression.