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Language Play

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Language Play Synopsis

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.

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ISBN: 9780226122052
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Author: David Crystal
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press an imprint of University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 248 pages
Genres: Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

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