Multiple Perspectives on Language Play /

Multiple Perspectives on Language Play / / ed. by Nancy Bell.

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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 imm...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Bannink, Anne,
Chun, Elaine W.,
Eskildsen, Søren W.,
Hann, David,
Haugh, Michael,
Hedgcock, John S.,
Holt, Elizabeth,
Huth, Thorsten,
Kim, Jiyun,
Lefkowitz, Natalie,
McKinney, Julia,
Norrick, Neal R.,
Otsuji, Emi,
Pennycook, Alastair,
Schnurr, Stephanie,
Sinkeviciute, Valeria,
Van Dam, Jet,
Veale, Tony,
Zayts, Olga,
HerausgeberIn:
Bell, Nancy,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2016]
©2017
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Language Play and Creativity , 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 406 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Language play in conversation
  • 2. Playing with turns, playing with action? A social-interactionist perspective
  • 3. The shape of tweets to come: Automating language play in social networks
  • 4. “This system’s so slow”: Negotiating sequences of laughter and laughables in call-center interaction
  • 5. Laughter as a “serious business”: Clients’ laughter in prenatal screening for Down’s syndrome
  • 6. Jocular language play, social action and (dis)affiliation in conversational interaction
  • 7. “Everything he says to me it’s like he stabs me in the face”: Frontstage and backstage reactions to teasing
  • 8. Cities, conviviality and double-edged language play
  • 9. Building rapport and a sense of communal identity through play in a second language classroom
  • 10. The first English (EFL) lesson: Initial settings or the emergence of a playful classroom culture
  • 11. The emergence of creativity in L2 English: A usage-based case-study
  • 12. Teaching language learners how to understand sarcasm in L2 English
  • 13. Anti-language: Linguistic innovation, identity construction, and group affiliation among emerging speech communities
  • 14. Celebrations of a satirical song: Ideologies of anti-racism in the media
  • Index

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