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In:Bonding through Context: Language and interactional alignment in Japanese situated discourse
Edited by Risako Ide and Kaori Hata
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 314] 2020
► pp. 239–264

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Chapter 11
Playful naming in playful framing

The intertextual emergence of neologism

 | Japan Women's University
Published online: 3 December 2020
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Abstract
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 on Bakhtinian notion of dialogism, which affords speech participants to create stances and utterances that resonate with the stances and utterances of the prior text, and transform them into something innovative, particular, and socioculturally meaningful in the present text. I will argue that, in addition to language form and meaning, speaker agency as instantiated in creativity and cooperation in naming, is also coordinated and shaped through conversational play.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction: Contextually bound meaning of humor
  • 2.Contextualization of conversational play
    • 2.1Intertextuality
    • 2.2Stance
  • 3.Data analysis
    • 3.1Proximate resonance with an existing compound noun
    • 3.2Remote resonance with a familiar noun phrase structure
    • 3.3Remote resonance within the conversation
  • 4.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • References
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