Language Through the Looking Glass

Auteur: Yaguello, Marina (Professor and Chair of Linguistics in the English Department)
Editeur: Oxford University Press
What does wordplay - in the broadest sense - teach us about language, its functions, its characteristics, its structure, and how it works? Marina Yaguello investigates how language is used in word games and literature, and how this relates to linguistic theory. This book is an excellent and entertaining introduction to language for students and non-specialists.

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What does wordplay - in the broadest sense - teach us about language, its functions, its characteristics, its structure, and how it works? Marina Yaguello investigates how language is used in word games and literature, and how this relates to linguistic theory. This book is an excellent and entertaining introduction to language for students and non-specialists.
ISBN / EAN 9780198700050
Auteur Yaguello, Marina (Professor and Chair of Linguistics in the English Department)
Editeur Oxford University Press