Multiple Perspectives on Language Play

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Multiple Perspectives on Language Play

Edited by: Nancy Bell

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2017

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Volume 1 | Language Play and Creativity [LPC]

About this book

Interest in language play and linguistic creativity has increased in recent years, and the topic has been taken up from a variety of perspectives. In this book, disparate approaches to the topic are brought together, demonstrating that a number of phenomena whose similarities might not have been immediately recognized, have an academic home under the umbrella of language play and linguistic creativity. The contributions to this collection illustrate the variety of questions that can be asked regarding the social, cognitive, emotional, political, and cultural mechanisms and significance of innovative linguistic practices and point to new directions of inquiry. Furthermore, the work exemplifies a variety of ways in which this research can be carried out, as well as the range of contexts in which it might be investigated, including second language classrooms, online settings, and workplaces. Taken together, the chapters serve to illustrate the range of work that we will be accepting in the Language Play and Creativity series; viewed individually, each makes a unique contribution to some aspect of our understanding of creative language use.

Author / Editor information

Nancy Bell, Washington State University, USA.

Reviews

"The volume Multiple Perspectives on Language Play is an invaluable asset for researchers and students who are interested in linguistic playfulness, humour, and creativity. All fourteen contributions successfully manage to provide the reader with a multi- and interdisciplinary scope on the phenomena examined [...] Overall, this edited volume is a significant contribution to the relevant literature and highly recommended."
Rania Karachaliou in: European Journal of Humour Research 6/4 (2018), 151-154

"This particular book is definitely an inspiration for further research and hence highly recommended to researchers interested in the wide area of language play, linguistic creativity, and humor, especially if they work in pragmatics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and L2 learning and teaching."
Villy Tsakona in: LINGUIST List 29.3359 (08.12.2017), https://linguistlist.org/issues/29/29-3359.html

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
1. Language play in conversation Neal R. Norrick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	11
2. Playing with turns, playing with action? A social-interactionist perspective Thorsten Huth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	47
3. The shape of tweets to come: Automating language play in social networks Tony Veale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	73
4. “This system’s so slow”: Negotiating sequences of laughter and laughables in call-center interaction Elizabeth Holt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	93
5. Laughter as a “serious business”: Clients’ laughter in prenatal screening for Down’s syndrome Olga Zayts and Stephanie Schnurr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	119
6. Jocular language play, social action and (dis)affiliation in conversational interaction Michael Haugh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	143
7. “Everything he says to me it’s like he stabs me in the face”: Frontstage and backstage reactions to teasing Valeria Sinkeviciute Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	169
8. Cities, conviviality and double-edged language play Emi Otsuji and Alastair Pennycook Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	199
9. Building rapport and a sense of communal identity through play in a second language classroom David Hann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	219
10. The first English (EFL) lesson: Initial settings or the emergence of a playful classroom culture Jet Van Dam and Anne Bannink Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	245
11. The emergence of creativity in L2 English: A usage-based case-study Søren W. Eskildsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	281
12. Teaching language learners how to understand sarcasm in L2 English Jiyun Kim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	317
13. Anti-language: Linguistic innovation, identity construction, and group affiliation among emerging speech communities Natalie Lefkowitz and John S. Hedgcock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	347
14. Celebrations of a satirical song: Ideologies of anti-racism in the media Julia McKinney and Elaine W. Chun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	377
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	403

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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

eBook published on:

December 19, 2016

eBook ISBN:

9781501503993

Hardcover published on:

December 19, 2016

Hardcover ISBN:

9781501511844

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Front matter:

6

Main content:

406

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501503993

eBook ISBN: 9781501503993

Hardcover ISBN: 9781501511844

Keywords for this book

Language Play; Humor; Creativity

Audience(s) for this book

Scholars and Graduate Students in Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, and Humor Studies.

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