PlayframesBy: Celia Pearce An exploration of how we know were playing and what happens when we dont. Playframes builds on the work of Gregory Bateson and Erving Goffman to take a deep dive into Batesons primary question: How do we know were 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 of