Language Play by David Crystal

Language Play by David Crystal

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Zusammenfassung

In this text, 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.

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Language Play by David Crystal

In this text, 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, cross-words, lipograms, comic alphabets, rhymes, funny voices taken from dialect and popular culture, limericks, anagrams, and scat singing.
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ISBN 13 9780226122052
ISBN 10 0226122050
Titel Language Play
Autor David Crystal
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag The University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsjahr 2001-06-11
Seitenanzahl 274
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