Publications

Publication details [#61668]

Sierra, Sylvia. 2016. Playing out loud: Videogame references as resources in friend interaction for managing frames, epistemics, and group identity. Language in Society 45 (2) : 217–245.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

frame | humor | interactional sociolinguistics | problem solving | video

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

Young adult friends refer to earlier played videogames for epistemic shifts in dilemma talk, thus reframing problematic talk (on topics such as rent, money, and hurt) into lighter, humorous everyday talk, and favoring group identity construction.