Speech Play

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1992-05

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Oxford University Press

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The creative disposition of language resources; the manipulation of formal features and processes of language to achieve a striking restructuring of familiar discourse alignments. A great deal of conversational speech play is essentially frivolous, yet it serves vital communicative needs, such as establishing a proper social bonding among participants in a speech event. Moreover, when it is used in connection with certain social and vital enactments, speech play may acquire profound or even exalted stature.

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McDowell, John H. "Speech Play" (1992). In Richard Bauman (ed.), Folklore, Cultural Performances, and Popular Entertainments: A Communications-Centered Handbook. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 139-144.

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