Author: David Crystal Year: 1998 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction
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ISBNs: 9780226122052 0226122050 |
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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.
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