Language Play

CRYSTAL,D

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Author
CRYSTAL,D
Publish Date
06/01/2001
Book Type
paperback
Publisher Name
CHICAGO
Number of Pages
274
Edition
1
ISBN-10
0226122050
ISBN-13
9780226122052
SKU
9780226122052

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.