“Yu haf no idr how feckin fablus I feel rite now”: “Wine mom” humour in an online support group for mothers during COVID-19

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, the “wine mom” phenomenon exploded in online spaces. This paper examines “wine mom” discourse in a Facebook support group for mothers in Hong Kong. We define the “wine mom” as a humorous memetic resource. It is culturally recognisable and associated with women’s (including mothers’) drinking. Drawing on 30 “wine mom” threads from the support group, we use interactional sociolinguistics and multimodal discourse analysis to examine humour performance and humour support in the data. We identify a range of linguistic and multimodal strategies that the support group members use to construct and respond to “wine mom” humour. A focus on particularly popular threads demonstrates that the members playfully blend advice-giving with genres such as breaking news. Humorous advice centres on various COVID-19-related practices and realities, including quarantining and self-testing. We discuss how by joking about wine and drinking, the women do more than being humorous: they build rapport and solidarity, and provide support to each other during the pandemic.

"你不知道我现在感觉有多糟糕吗?COVID-19 期间母亲在线支持小组中的 "酒妈妈 "幽默
在 COVID-19 大流行期间,"葡萄酒妈妈 "现象在网络空间爆炸性增长。本文研究了香港一个 Facebook 母亲支持小组中的 "红酒妈妈 "话语。我们将 "红酒妈妈 "定义为一种幽默的记忆资源。它具有文化识别性,与女性(包括母亲)饮酒相关联。我们利用支持小组中的 30 个 "酒妈妈 "主题,使用互动社会语言学和多模态话语分析来研究数据中的幽默表现和幽默支持。我们确定了支持小组成员用来构建和回应 "酒妈妈 "幽默的一系列语言和多模态策略。对特别受欢迎的主题的关注表明,成员们将提供建议与突发新闻等体裁巧妙地融合在一起。幽默建议的中心是各种与 COVID-19 相关的实践和现实,包括隔离和自我检测。我们讨论了妇女们如何通过对葡萄酒和饮酒的玩笑,不仅仅是幽默:她们建立了融洽和团结的关系,并在大流行病期间相互支持。
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