👉 The term "byplay" in the context of the field of linguistics refers to a situation where two or more people are engaging in conversations simultaneously, often with different meanings or interpretations of the same words. This can occur in various contexts, such as during a conversation between two individuals who know each other well but do not speak the same language, or when two people are discussing unrelated topics that they have no prior knowledge of. Byplay has been studied extensively in fields such as cognitive linguistics,