Publications

Publication details [#51683]

Howard, Kathryn M. 2009. Breaking in and spinning out: Repetition and decalibration in Thai children’s play genres. Language in Society 38 (3) : 339–363.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

children's play | genre | humor | pragmatics | repetition1

Language as a subject

Thai

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

Drawing on Bauman’s calibration notion, this study discusses the workings of a decalibration aesthetic in Thai children’s metalinguistic and metapragmatic humorous language play performances.