{"product_id":"language-play-paperback","title":"Language Play - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Crystal\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Crystal\u003c\/b\u003e is the Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor. His previous books include \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEnglish as a Global Language\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLanguage Death\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWords on Words\u003c\/i\u003e, the last published by the University of Chicago Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 274\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 8 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 11, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47326940594425,"sku":"9780226122052","price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/dDhwekxBWE9UVFkzZFdRMzZ0WUUyZz09.webp?v=1769573325","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/language-play-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}