Language Play
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0140273859
ISBN 13
9780140273854
Category
Unknown
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Publication Year
1999
Publisher
Pages
272
Description
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. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
