Abstract EN:

The recent migratory movements in Europe have lead to linguistic communities that are demanding recognition of their biculturalism. Some demands are communicated through humorous skits put on by comedians who are living proof of "humor of contact". In france, texts by Smaïn, Boujenah, Lounes Tazairt, Karim, the Négropolitains and Eric Blanc, among others, represent an intermediary culture and set up a strategy in the search for cultural identity; the foreigner's humor expresses an intercultural identity to be. Our goal here is to see how the foreigner laughs (in our case, a humorist and a foreign student in a franch language class), and at what. The foreigner's laugh is to be considered exolinguistic in that the meaning carried by their humor is situated in the differences between french and, for example, arabic repertoires. Recurrent topics like the broom, the customs, identity checks and the generation gap are built on a double movement which include the sociolinguistic humor of the foreigner which shows his or her ambivalence toward integration while at the same time taking on the attitude of the native. The study of foreign students' metalinguistic and kinetic attitudes allows us to make these reflections clearer.