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  Language Play (Paperback) By (author) David Crystal

  

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  Short Description for Language PlayIn 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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  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • Published: 07 March 2008
  • Format: Paperback 274 pages
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  • Categories: Linguistics | Psycholinguistics | Historical & Comparative Linguistics
  • ISBN 13: 9780226122052 ISBN 10: 0226122050
  • Sales rank: 511,448

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• 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.