| Language Play Univ of Chicago Edition Contributor(s): Crystal, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226122050 ISBN-13: 9780226122052 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $29.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2001 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Study & Teaching |
| Dewey: 793.734 |
| LCCN: 00069095 |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 5.3" W x 8" (0.61 lbs) 274 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Contributor Bio(s): Crystal, David: - David Crystal is a writer, lecturer, and broadcaster on language. His more than one hundred books include The Stories of English, Wordsmiths and Warriors, The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation, and The Story of Be. |