Language Play, Language Learning
Author: Guy Cook
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000-02-03
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780194421539
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book has two related purposes. The first is to demonstrate the extent and importance of language play in human life; the second is to draw out the implications for applied linguistics and language teaching. Language play should not be thought of as a trivial or peripheral activity, but as central to human thought and culture, to learning, creativity, and intellectual enquiry. It fulfils a major function of language, underpinning the human capacity to adapt: as individuals, as societies, and as a species.