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Language Play
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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Details
- 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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