Language play

Language play

by Crystal, David

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"In this 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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Title Statements

  • Full title :Language play / David Crystal ; illustrations by Ed McLachlan.

Summary

"In this 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."--Jacket.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2001.
  • Edition:University of Chicago Press ed

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Notes

Originally published: London, England : Penguin Books Ltd. ; New York, N.Y. : Penguin Putnam Inc., 1998.

The Physical Object

  • Description:x, 248 pages : : illustrations ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0226122050, 9780226122052
  • oclc:ocm45620578
  • LC Classification:P304
  • Dewey Decimal:793.734

Table of Contents

1. The Ludic View -- 2. The Amateurs -- 3. The Enthusiasts -- 4. The Professionals -- 5. The Children -- 6. The Readers -- 7. The Future.

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Subjects

Jeux littéraires Literary recreations Mots d'esprit et jeux de mots Plays on words

Writers

Crystal, David

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