The Seven Rhetorics of Play:
- Play as progress
- Play as fate
- Play as power
- Play as identity
- Play as the imaginary
- Rhetoric of the self
- Play as frivolous
Defintions of play:
- definitions by players of their own play experiences and functions
- definitions by theorists of intrinsic play functions – players game-related motives for playing
- definitions by theorists of extrinsic play functions – the forms of play in terms of the functions they are supposed to serve in the larger culture.
Sutton-Smith, Brian., (1997) “Play and ambiguity” from Sutton-Smith, Brian., The ambiguity of play pp.1-17, Cambridge, Mass. ; London: Harvard University Press