Playframes: How Do We Know We Are Playing?

by Celia Pearce

An exploration of how we know we're playing and what happens when we don't.

Playframes builds on the work of Gregory Bateson and Erving Goffman to take a deep dive into Bateson's primary question: How do we know we're playing? In this book, Celia Pearce addresses this question by building a comprehensive theory of the specific mechanisms that metacommunicate the message "this is play." This "big tent" approach covers a broad swath...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262550814
• ISBN13: 9780262550819
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 338 Pages