Multiple Perspectives on Language Play

✍ Scribed by Nancy Bell (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 412
• Series: Language Play and Creativity [LPC]; 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

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-centre 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