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Language Play
University of Chicago Press Edition
Paperback (07 Mar 2008)
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780226122052 |
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
Imprint: | The University of Chicago Press |
Pub date: | 07 Mar 2008 |
Edition: | University of Chicago Press Edition |
DEWEY: | 793.734 |
DEWEY edition: | 21 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 248 |
Weight: | 278g |
Height: | 205mm |
Width: | 135mm |
Spine width: | 15mm |