ABSTRACT
The poet should be a maker of plots more than a maker of verses, in that he is a poet by virtue of his imitation and he imitates actions. This chapter examines in detail the specific interplay between language and role. Of particular interest here are the speech resources used by children to signal their playful transformations of roles and props, and the extent to which my findings are continuous or discontinuous with those reported for Western fantasy players. The author anchors the analysis of role transformations to just one complete play transcript. Rather than the text being secreted in an appendix, it is presented within the body of the chapter so that the onus is on the reader to familiarise himself/herself with the text.
