@ARTICLE{Princiotto_Angela_Identification_2023, author={Princiotto, Angela}, number={No 4}, pages={656-669}, journal={Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny}, howpublished={online}, year={2023}, publisher={Wydział I Nauk Humanistycznych i Społecznych PAN i Uniwersytet Warszawski}, abstract={Humor has ancient roots and it has been the object of study of various disciplines from sociology, to literature, to linguistics. It has been highlighted how it can have an inclusive or exclusive value based on how it is used. Ethnic comedy has been employed by migrant subsequent generations to express a sense of belonging. Exploiting humour, behaviors and attitudes typical of first-generation emigrants who have been the object of denigration by mainstream society for a long time, have been turned by young generations into distinctive characteristics of the group and elements of belonging. This article aims to verify how language in ethnic comedy is used by young people of Italian descent in Australia and Canada as an expression of identity. Therefore, shows by Australian comedian Joe Avati and some episodes of the web series Nonna Maria Canada will be analyzed.}, type={Artykuł}, title={Identification and humor. Sharing sense of belonging in the ethnic comedy}, URL={http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/130206/2023-04-KNEO-11.pdf}, doi={10.24425/kn.2023.148378}, keywords={Italian emigration, ethnic comedy, humor, emigrant generations}, }