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- catalog abstract "The author views language as complex systems of grammar and human behavior and demonstrates the ways in which they interact through extensive examples, while exploring such questions as why certain words make us blush or wince, why men and women speak differently, why nursery rhymes in vastly different societies possess similar rhyme and rhythm patterns, and what slang, riddles and puns secretly have in common.".
- catalog contributor b1763184.
- catalog created "1974 [c1973]".
- catalog date "1974 [c1973]".
- catalog date "1974".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1974 [c1973]".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. [335]-350.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "The author views language as complex systems of grammar and human behavior and demonstrates the ways in which they interact through extensive examples, while exploring such questions as why certain words make us blush or wince, why men and women speak differently, why nursery rhymes in vastly different societies possess similar rhyme and rhythm patterns, and what slang, riddles and puns secretly have in common.".
- catalog extent "x, 350, xiv p.".
- catalog hasFormat "Word play; what happens when people talk.".
- catalog identifier "0394486757".
- catalog isFormatOf "Word play; what happens when people talk.".
- catalog issued "1974 [c1973]".
- catalog issued "1974".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York, Knopf; [distributed by Random House]".
- catalog relation "Word play; what happens when people talk.".
- catalog subject "301.2/1".
- catalog subject "BF455 F219w 1974".
- catalog subject "Language and languages.".
- catalog subject "Language.".
- catalog subject "P41 .F3".
- catalog subject "Psycholinguistics.".
- catalog subject "Verbal Behavior.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Word play; what happens when people talk.".
- catalog type "text".