Word play; what happens when people talk.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York, Knopf; [distributed by Random House] 1974 [c1973]Edition: [1st ed.]Description: x, 350, xiv p. 22 cmISBN:- 0394486757
- 301.2/1
- P41 .F3
- BF455 F219w 1974
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Bibliography: p. [335]-350.
WAR, NEWBERY,
Introduction: The play and the players ; I. The game: The ecology of language -- Speech situations -- Words and deeds ; II. The strategies: The speakable and the unspeakable -- Verbal dueling -- Playing with language -- Linguistic chauvinism ; III. Is the game rigged?: Man at the mercy of language -- How to talk about the world -- In other words ; IV. Born to speak: Man the talker -- The language of children -- The spoken word -- Making combinations ; V. The changing game: Language in flux -- Repairing Babel.