Language Play
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About this book
In this exhilarating and often hilarious book, David Crystal examines why we devote so much time and energy to language games, how professionals make a career of them, and how young children instinctively take to them. Crystal makes a simple argument-that since playing with language is so natural, a natural way to learn language is to play with it-while he discusses puns, crosswords, lipograms, comic alphabets, rhymes, funny voices taken from dialect and popular culture, limericks, anagrams, scat singing, and much more.
Details
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN-13
- 9780226122052
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- June 11, 2001
- Pages
- 274
- Weight
- 9.8 oz
- Subject
- Language Arts & Disciplines
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