Language Through the Looking Glass: Exploring Language and Linguistics

By Marina Yaguello

Book Overview

To play with language is to break its rules, disrupt its patterns, exploit its weak points. Thus, paradoxically, puns and spoonerisms, neologisms, and slogans reveal and highlight the patterns to which discourse conforms - patterns which reflect the linguistic competence of language speakers. Only those who have linguistics competence can play with it: thus language games and the poetic use of language are underpinned by unconscious use of linguistic analysis.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198700067
• ISBN13: 9780198700067
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.6"

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