Word Play; What Happens When People Talk

Peter Farb

ISBN 10: 0394486757 ISBN 13: 9780394486758

Published by Random House (NY) January 1974, 1974

Language: English

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Word Play; What Happens When People Talk

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Random House (NY) January 1974

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1974

Language

English

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0394486757

ISBN 13

9780394486758

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Hardcover

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Good

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The author views language as complex systems of grammar and human behavior and demonstrates the ways in which they interact through extensive examples

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"A captivating, almost entirely unpedantic book . . . solidly founded in scholarship, love of language, and an unabashed worldliness about play itself." --Washington Post

"Absorbing . . . so curious, amusing, and enlightening . . . we almost inadvertently learn a great deal about linguistics. [But] it seems scarcely to matter what we've learned . . . we've simply had too much fun." --The New York Times

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