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Language Play

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Overview

In this text, 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, cross-words, lipograms, comic alphabets, rhymes, funny voices taken from dialect and popular culture, limericks, anagrams, and scat singing.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780226122052
  • ISBN-10: 0226122050
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • Publish Date: June 2001
  • Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.58 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.61 pounds
  • Page Count: 274

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