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Speech Play : Research and Resources for the Study of Linguistic Creativity / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Conduct and CommunicationPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©1976Edition: Reprint 2016Description: 1 online resource (308 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812277067
  • 9781512803150
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 418
LOC classification:
  • P35 .S6
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources:
Contents:
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
Summary: 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 speech play to current issues in linguistic theory, cognitive development, and the ethnography of speaking.
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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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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 speech play to current issues in linguistic theory, cognitive development, and the ethnography of speaking.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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