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Word play; what happens when people talk.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, Knopf; [distributed by Random House] 1974 [c1973]Edition: [1st ed.]Description: x, 350, xiv p. 22 cmISBN:
  • 0394486757
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.2/1
LOC classification:
  • P41 .F3
NLM classification:
  • BF455 F219w 1974
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks P41.F3 1 Available 33710000566112

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.