Speech Play : Research and Resources for the Study of Linguistic Creativity /

From riddles to proverbs, from jingles to jokes, from mnemonics to pig Latin to dueling with words, speech play is central to social life in all of its forms. These essays describe a variety of speech play genres, formulate the "rules" for play with language, and discuss the relevance of s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Edición:Reprint 2016
Colección:Conduct and Communication
Temas:
Creativity (Linguistics)
Language and culture.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Joel Sherzer
  • 1. Play Languages: Implications for (Socio) Linguistics
  • 2. Secret Play Languages in Saramaka: Linguistic Disguise in a Caribbean Creole
  • 3. Some Zinacanteco Joking Strategies
  • 4. Children's Traditional Speech Play and Child Language
  • 5. A Developmental Structural Account of Riddles
  • 6. Verbal Dueling in Chamula
  • 7. How to Remember Numbers in Japanese
  • 8. Saying Is Inventing: Gnomic Expressions in Molloy
  • 9. Directions for Future Research
  • 10. Bibliographic Survey of the Literature on Speech Play and Related Subjects
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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