TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kirshenblatt-Gimblett,Barbara
TI  - Speech Play: Research and Resources for the Study of Linguistic Creativity 
T2  - Conduct and Communication
SN  - 9780812277067
AV  - P35 .S6
U1  - 418 
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - Creativity (Linguistics)
KW  - Language and culture
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512803150
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781512803150
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