M. Keneman

The Hearer’s Share: Symbolic Reciprocity in Multilingual Interaction through Film and Cooperative Games

What makes multilingual exchanges hold is not a gifted speaker alone, but a listener who agrees to play. This article names that agreement symbolic reciprocity—the hearer’s willingness to share symbolic risk so that meaning and legitimacy are co‑produced rather than tested. Framing interaction through a cooperative‑gam...