WORDPLAY AND EXCLUSION.

This volume focuses on serious aspects of wordplay related to phenomena of exclusion, complementing previous research where its funny and innocent dimension has been foregrounded.Wordplay is not only an essential means of bonding people and reinforcing group identities, but it can also serve to excl...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	BERLIN : DE GRUYTER, 2025.
Edition:	1ST ED.
Series:	The dynamics of wordplay ; 10
Subjects:	Plays on words > Social aspects. Social isolation. Isolement social. Mots d'esprit et jeux de mots > Aspect social. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies. Plays on words Social isolation Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
VContents
1More than two to tango: Speakers, hearers, and others excluded from wordplay / Esme Winter-Froemel
23Ten years of research into the dynamics of wordplay: Looking back and forward24
25A few personal reflections on wordplay / Dirk Delabastita
29On wordplay in just about every sense / Alain Rabatel
53Constructing and negotiating inclusion and exclusion in interaction54
55Epistemic exclusion and the paradoxical role of jocular wordplay in L1-L2 intercultural initial interactions / Michael Haugh, Wei-Lin Melody Chang
93Wordplay as a tool of online community construction on X / Haoran Liu
135Protests and placards: Humor and wordplay in Serbia's 2024-2025 student uprising / Gordana Lalić-Krstin, Nadežda Silaški
165From wordplay to exclusion: Blends and related word-formation processes in Italian politics and journalese / Silvia Cacchiani, Mauro Le Donne
197Di muor yu luk, di les yu si: Wordplay, duplicity, and exclusion in dancehall songs / Patrice Clarke
225Codes, contexts, and communicative settings226
227Secret argots and exclusion: The case of Parisian largonji du louchébem and Pertuisian louchébeum / Stéphane Hardy
253Fun, but not for everyone: Exclusion in multiple-addressed wordplay in French and basic parameters for analysing exclusive wordplay traditions / Esme Winter-Froemel
289Words that (should not!) exclude: Scientific explanations and wordplay in science fiction and in Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's L'Ève future / Matthias Hausmann
309Wordplay and exclusion in ancient Greek epic and the magical papyri / Daniel Kölligan
333Appendix334
335Contributor information