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Language Play
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Publish Date: Jun 11st, 2001
- Pages: 274
- Language: English
- Edition: Univ of Chicago - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.30in - 0.58in - 0.61lb
- EAN: 9780226122052
- Categories: • Study & Teaching
About the Author
Crystal, David: - David Crystal is a writer, editor, lecturer, broadcaster, and honorary professor of linguistics at Bangor University. His many books include The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, A Date with Language, and Bookish Words, the latter two also published by Bodleian Library Publishing.