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Language Play and Creativity [LPC]

Herausgegeben von: Nancy Bell

ISSN: 2363-7749

e-ISSN 2363-7757

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The Language Play and Creativity series publishes monographs and edited collections on the topic of language play and linguistic creativity. It provides a forum for broad, interdisciplinary perspectives on questions including, but not limited to the role of, or relationship between, language play and first or second language development, formulaic vs. creative language use, memory and cognition, linguistic diversity and multilingualism, language change, identities, language education, and intercultural communication. The series welcomes work conducted from a variety of research perspectives in order to address cognitive, social, and applied issues involved in language play and linguistic creativity.

To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.

See also our Humor Research book series.

Fachgebiete

Buch 2024

Interactional Humor

Multimodal Design and Negotiation

Béatrice Priego-Valverde

Band 10 in dieser Reihe

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The central question explored in this volume is: How is humor multimodally produced, perceived, responded to, and negotiated? To this end, it offers a panorama of linguistic research on multimodal and interactional humor, based on different theoretical frameworks, corpora, and methodologies. Humor is considered as an activity that is interactionally achieved, regardless of whether the interaction in which it is embedded is face-to-face, computer-mediated, with a human or a robot, oral or written. The aim is to analyze both the linguistic resources of the participants (such as their lexicon, prosody, gestures, gazes, or smiles) and the semiotic resources that social networks and instant messaging platforms offer them (such as memes, gifs, or emojis).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110983128
ISBN:: 9783110983128
ISBN:: 9783110996333
ISBN:: 9783110983289
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Semiotik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Multimodalität
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Humorforschung
Fachgebiet:: Humor und Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 2024

Heteroglossia and Language Play in Multilingual Speech

Pedagogical and Theoretical Implications

Darren LaScotte, Elaine Tarone

Band 9 in dieser Reihe

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The studies in this volume show how multilingual learners use language play in second language acquisition to internalize sets of ‘voices’ (rather than decontextualized linguistic systems), namely complexes of linguistic and non-linguistic features incorporating the personalities of significant others. In sociocultural terms, these internalized heteroglossic voices become tools that learners can adapt and use playfully to enact chosen roles, stances, and identities in subsequent oral interactions. Different chapters explore these sociocultural constructs using different approaches, including variationist sociolinguistics, conversation analysis, translanguaging, and positioning theory.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110787696
ISBN:: 9783110787696
ISBN:: 9783110787849
ISBN:: 9783110787566
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sprachdidaktik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Diskursanalyse
Fachgebiet:: Zweitspracherwerb
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 2024

Humor, Identity, and Belonging

Constructing the Foreign in American-Japanese Interaction

Stephen J. Moody

Band 7 in dieser Reihe

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This book presents an ethnographic perspective on the intersection of humor, identity, and belonging. Based on recorded interactions between Americans and Japanese, it explores how beliefs and stereotypes surrounding gaijin ‘foreigner’ identities create various types of humor such as mockery, sarcasm, and conversational jokes. Through this analysis, the study also discusses how identity-focused humor impacts participants’ understandings of interculturality and social belonging. In particular, it argues that while "being an outsider" can be marginalizing, humor allows cultural differences to become a basis for developing inclusion and social unity, in part through the recognition of shared norms and values.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110759877
ISBN:: 9783110759877
ISBN:: 9783110759716
ISBN:: 9783110760033
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Gespräch, Diskurs
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Humorforschung
Fachgebiet:: Humor und Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch Noch nicht erschienen 2025

Why So Serious?

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Humour and Play in Satirical Discourse

Stephen Skalicky

Band 6 in dieser Reihe

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Satire blends verbal irony, humour, and parody into a subtle critique, usually aimed towards a social or political wrong. Accordingly, satire has captured the attention of scholars spanning multiple disciplines, naturally leading to divergent definitions and understandings of satire. This book takes an interdisciplinary perspective to consider the ways in which satirical discourse can also be viewed as a form of creative language play, which may serve as a useful criterion along which to discuss disciplinary variation associated with satire. Through the lens of humour theory and a theory of satire as discourse, satirical texts such as satirical news and satirical product reviews are analysed using corpus and computational text-analytic techniques. Results from these analyses are used to describe the manner in which both professional and amateur satirists deploy language play in different satirical texts. This use of play in satire is then considered in light of definitions and results obtained from different academic disciplines, and suggestions are provided for additional interdisciplinary approaches to studying satire. In all, this book highlights the scholarly benefits of taking a serious look at the playful side of satire.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783110753462
ISBN:: 9783110753462
ISBN:: 9783110753417
ISBN:: 9783110753493
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Quantitative, Computer- und Korpuslinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Gespräch, Diskurs
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Humorforschung
Fachgebiet:: Humor und Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 2021

Laugh like an Egyptian

Humour in the Contemporary Egyptian Novel

Cristina Dozio

Band 5 in dieser Reihe

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Egyptians are known among the Arabs as awlād al-nukta, Sons of the Jokes, for their ability to laugh in face of adversity. This creative weapon has been directed against socio-political targets both in times of oppression and popular upheaval, such as the 2011 Tahrir Revolution. This book looks at the literary expression of Egyptian humour in the novels of Muḥammad Mustajāb, Khayrī Shalabī, and Ḥamdī Abū Julayyil, three writers who revive the comic tradition to innovate the language of contemporary fiction. Their modern tricksters, wise fools, and antiheroes play with the stereotypical traits attached to the ordinary Egyptians, while laughing at the universal contradictions of life. This ability to combine local and global culture, literary traditions and popular references, makes them a stimulating read in an intercultural perspective.

Combining humour studies and literary criticism, this book examines language play and narrative creativity to understand which strategies craft Egyptian literary humour. In doing so, it sheds light on the contribution of humour to literary innovations of Egyptian fiction since the late Seventies, while adding new writers to those who are considered the masters of humour in the Arab novel.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110725414
ISBN:: 9783110725414
ISBN:: 9783111267265
ISBN:: 9783110725292
ISBN:: 9783110725513
Fachgebiet:: Islam- und Nahostwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Sprache und Literatur
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Asiatische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Semitische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Arabisch
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Humorforschung
Fachgebiet:: Humor und Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 2020

Recontextualizing Humor

Rethinking the Analysis and Teaching of Humor

Villy Tsakona

Band 4 in dieser Reihe

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Humor may surface in numerous and diverse contexts, which at the same time determine how humor works, its form, and its functions and consequences for interlocutors. Adopting a sociolinguistic and discourse analytic perspective, this study is aligned with approaches to humor exploring the variety of humorous genres, the wide range of sociopragmatic functions of humor, and the more or less dissimilar perceptions speakers may have concerning what humor is, what it means, and how it works. The chapters of this book propose a new theoretical approach to the analysis of humor by bringing context into focus. Furthermore, the study explores how we can teach about humor within a critical literacy framework creating classroom space for everyday humorous texts that are part of students’ social realities, and simultaneously taking into account that humor may yield multiple, disparaging, and often conflicting interpretations. This book is intended to appeal to humor researchers from various disciplines (such as linguistics, media studies, cultural studies, literary studies, sociology, anthropology, folklore) as well as to professionals or researchers in education.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501511929
ISBN:: 9781501511929
ISBN:: 9781501526930
ISBN:: 9781501511523
ISBN:: 9781501517488
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Diskursanalyse
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Humorforschung
Fachgebiet:: Humor und Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 2020

Language Play in Contemporary Swedish Comic Strips

Kristy Beers Fägersten

Band 3 in dieser Reihe

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This book focuses on the unexplored context of contemporary Swedish comic strips as sites of innovative linguistic practices, where humor is derived from language play and creativity, often drawing from English and other European languages as well as social and regional dialects of Swedish. The overall purpose of the book is to highlight linguistic playfulness in Swedish comic strips, as an example of practices as yet unobserved and unaccounted for in theories of linguistic humor as applied to comics scholarship.
The book familiarizes the reader with the Swedish language and linguistic culture as well as contemporary Swedish comic strips, with chapters focusing on specific strategies of language play and linguistic humor, such as mocking Swedish dialects and Swedish-accented foreign language usage, invoking English language popular culture, swearing in multiple languages, and turn-final code-switching to English to signal the punchline.
The book will appeal to readers interested in humor, comics, or how linguistic innovation, language play, and language contact each can further the modern development of language, exemplified by the case of Swedish.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501505119
ISBN:: 9781501505119
ISBN:: 9781501527180
ISBN:: 9781501514319
ISBN:: 9781501505058
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Humorforschung
Fachgebiet:: Humor und Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 2018

Learning and Using Conversational Humor in a Second Language During Study Abroad

Rachel L Shively

Band 2 in dieser Reihe

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This book examines the use of conversational humor in a second language in the context of study abroad. Using a longitudinal design, naturalistic interactions, and a language socialization framework, the study investigates the ways in which study abroad students develop in their production of humor in second language Spanish and discusses how those developments are the result of language learning processes grounded in social interaction.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614518617
ISBN:: 9781614518617
ISBN:: 9781614518587
ISBN:: 9781501501173
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Diskursanalyse
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 2017

Multiple Perspectives on Language Play

Nancy Bell

Band 1 in dieser Reihe

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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 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.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501503993
ISBN:: 9781501503993
ISBN:: 9781501511844
ISBN:: 9781501503962
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sprachdidaktik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton