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Imaginary Languages - Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions (Paperback): Marina Yaguello, Erik Butler Imaginary Languages - Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions (Paperback)
Marina Yaguello, Erik Butler
R634 R533 Discovery Miles 5 330 Save R101 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Imaginary Languages - Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions (Hardcover): Marina Yaguello, Erik Butler Imaginary Languages - Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions (Hardcover)
Marina Yaguello, Erik Butler
R800 R650 Discovery Miles 6 500 Save R150 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Language through the Looking Glass - Exploring Language and Linguistics (Hardcover): Marina Yaguello Language through the Looking Glass - Exploring Language and Linguistics (Hardcover)
Marina Yaguello
R4,027 Discovery Miles 40 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What does wordplay - in the broadest sense - teach us about language, its functions, its characteristics, its structure, and how it works? Marina Yaguello investigates how language is used in word games and literature, and how this relates to linguistic theory. This book is an excellent and entertaining introduction to language for students and non-specialists.

Language Through the Looking Glass - Exploring Language and Linguistics (Paperback): Marina Yaguello Language Through the Looking Glass - Exploring Language and Linguistics (Paperback)
Marina Yaguello; Translated by Trevor Harris
R1,486 Discovery Miles 14 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

To play with language is to break its rules, disrupt its patterns, exploit its weak points. Thus, paradoxically, puns and spoonerisms, neologisms, and slogans reveal and highlight the patterns to which discourse conforms -- patterns which reflect the linguistic competence of language speakers. Only those who have linguistics competence can play with it: thus language games and the poetic use of language are underpinned by unconscious use of linguistic analysis.

Using Lewis Carroll's Alice as a starting point, Marina Yaguello takes the reader on an unconventional voyage around language, charting the major themes of linguistics on the way. She shows that we can come to an understanding of language in general and of particular languages through exploring the devices of humour, word-games, and poetry -- devices which reveal the unconscious linguist in all of us. The result is an entertaining but rigorous introduction to language and linguistics for non-specialists and students alike.

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