Words that (should not!) exclude: Scientific explanations and wordplay in science fiction and in Villiers de l’Isle-Adam’s L’Ève future

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. More than two to tango: Speakers, hearers, and others excluded from wordplay 1
4. Part I: Ten years of research into the dynamics of wordplay: Looking back and forward
5. A few personal reflections on wordplay 25
6. On wordplay in just about every sense 29
7. Part II: Constructing and negotiating inclusion and exclusion in interaction
8. Epistemic exclusion and the paradoxical role of jocular wordplay in L1-L2 intercultural initial interactions 55
9. Wordplay as a tool of online community construction on X 93
10. Protests and placards: Humor and wordplay in Serbia’s 2024–2025 student uprising 135
11. From wordplay to exclusion: Blends and related word-formation processes in Italian politics and journalese 165
12. Di muor yu luk, di les yu si: Wordplay, duplicity, and exclusion in dancehall songs 197
13. Part III: Codes, contexts, and communicative settings
14. Secret argots and exclusion: The case of Parisian largonji du louchébem and Pertuisian louchébeum 227
15. Fun, but not for everyone: Exclusion in multiple-addressed wordplay in French and basic parameters for analysing exclusive wordplay traditions 253
16. Words that (should not!) exclude: Scientific explanations and wordplay in science fiction and in Villiers de l’Isle-Adam’s L’Ève future 289
17. Wordplay and exclusion in ancient Greek epic and the magical papyri 309
18. Appendix
19. Contributor information 335
20. Index