Table of Contents
Introduction Nancy Bell 01
1 Language play in conversation Neat R. Norrick 11
2 Playing with turns, playing with action? A social-interactionist perspective Thorsten Huth 47
3 The shape of tweets to come: Automating language play in social networks Tony Veale 73
4 "This system's so slow": Negotiating sequences of laughter and laughables in call-centre interaction Elizabeth Holt 93
5 Laughter as a "serious business": Clients' laughter in prenatal screening for Down's syndrome Olga Zayts Stephanie Schnurr 119
6 Jocular language play, social action and (dis)affillation in conversational interaction Michael Haugh 143
7 "Everything he says to me it's like he stabs me in the face": Frontstage and backstage reactions to teasing Valeria Sinkeviciute 169
8 Cities, conviviality and double-edged language play Emi Otsuji Alastair Pennycook 199
9 Building rapport and a sense of communal identity through play in a second language classroom David Hann 219
10 The first English (EFL) lesson: Initial settings or the emergence of a playful classroom culture Jet Van Dam Anne Bannink 245
11 The emergence of creativity in L2 English: A usage-based case-study Søren W. Eskildsen 281
12 Teaching language learners how to understand sarcasm in 12 English Jiyun Kim 317
13 Anti-language: Linguistic innovation, identity construction, and group affiliation among emerging speech communities Natalie Lefkowitz John S. Hedgcock 347
14 Celebrations of a satirical song: Ideologies of anti-racism in the media Julia McKinney Elaine W. Chun 377
Index 403
