2. Playing with turns, playing with action? A social-interactionist perspective
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Thorsten Huth
Abstract
This study examines L2 interaction in order to explore the possible scope of a social-interactionist perspective on the notion of language play. By analyzing how second language learners deploy typed turns, sequences thereof, and their underlying preference structure, this study shows that language learners are able to recognize turns and the orderliness of turn-taking on a meta-level by consciously, systematically, and collaboratively manipulating them as objects and patterns. When conceptualizing language as both action and game from the outset, a two-fold notion of play arises from the data, namely play as a marked activity versus play as a basic condition of social interaction.
Abstract
This study examines L2 interaction in order to explore the possible scope of a social-interactionist perspective on the notion of language play. By analyzing how second language learners deploy typed turns, sequences thereof, and their underlying preference structure, this study shows that language learners are able to recognize turns and the orderliness of turn-taking on a meta-level by consciously, systematically, and collaboratively manipulating them as objects and patterns. When conceptualizing language as both action and game from the outset, a two-fold notion of play arises from the data, namely play as a marked activity versus play as a basic condition of social interaction.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Introduction 1
- 1. Language play in conversation 11
- 2. Playing with turns, playing with action? A social-interactionist perspective 47
- 3. The shape of tweets to come: Automating language play in social networks 73
- 4. “This system’s so slow”: Negotiating sequences of laughter and laughables in call-center interaction 93
- 5. Laughter as a “serious business”: Clients’ laughter in prenatal screening for Down’s syndrome 119
- 6. Jocular language play, social action and (dis)affiliation in conversational interaction 143
- 7. “Everything he says to me it’s like he stabs me in the face”: Frontstage and backstage reactions to teasing 169
- 8. Cities, conviviality and double-edged language play 199
- 9. Building rapport and a sense of communal identity through play in a second language classroom 219
- 10. The first English (EFL) lesson: Initial settings or the emergence of a playful classroom culture 245
- 11. The emergence of creativity in L2 English: A usage-based case-study 281
- 12. Teaching language learners how to understand sarcasm in L2 English 317
- 13. Anti-language: Linguistic innovation, identity construction, and group affiliation among emerging speech communities 347
- 14. Celebrations of a satirical song: Ideologies of anti-racism in the media 377
- Index 403
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Introduction 1
- 1. Language play in conversation 11
- 2. Playing with turns, playing with action? A social-interactionist perspective 47
- 3. The shape of tweets to come: Automating language play in social networks 73
- 4. “This system’s so slow”: Negotiating sequences of laughter and laughables in call-center interaction 93
- 5. Laughter as a “serious business”: Clients’ laughter in prenatal screening for Down’s syndrome 119
- 6. Jocular language play, social action and (dis)affiliation in conversational interaction 143
- 7. “Everything he says to me it’s like he stabs me in the face”: Frontstage and backstage reactions to teasing 169
- 8. Cities, conviviality and double-edged language play 199
- 9. Building rapport and a sense of communal identity through play in a second language classroom 219
- 10. The first English (EFL) lesson: Initial settings or the emergence of a playful classroom culture 245
- 11. The emergence of creativity in L2 English: A usage-based case-study 281
- 12. Teaching language learners how to understand sarcasm in L2 English 317
- 13. Anti-language: Linguistic innovation, identity construction, and group affiliation among emerging speech communities 347
- 14. Celebrations of a satirical song: Ideologies of anti-racism in the media 377
- Index 403
