Regarding interactional dialogic engagements as “bonding,” this article examines the dialogic process whereby playful neologism emerges as a product of the intersubjective act of play framing and playful stancetaking in Japanese conversations. Special attention is paid to intertextuality based… read more
This special issue revisits the notion of framing based on several recent developments in the fields of sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and linguistic anthropology, particularly the current interest in the notions of stance, style, metalinguistics and language ideology. In doing so, the… read more
Building on the theoretical frameworks of frame and stance, this paper aims to demonstrate how play framing is manipulated in culturally meaningful contexts of Japanese conversations among friends and to show the consequences it brings to social life. This study particularly focuses on speech… read more