Language Play (Paperback, Univ of Chicago PR ed.)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2001
First published:	June 2001
Authors:	David Crystal
Dimensions:	205 x 135 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	274
Edition:	Univ of Chicago PR ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-12205-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > General
LSN:	0-226-12205-0
Barcode:	9780226122052

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