Language Play
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
- Publish date: 06/01/2001
Description:
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.
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