Speech Play

Speech Play

Author: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2016-11-11

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1512803154

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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.