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Author Sherzer, Joel

Title Speech play and verbal art / by Joel Sherzer
Edition 1st ed
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 186 pages)
Contents Introduction -- The grammar of play and the play of grammar -- Forms of speech play in context -- From speech play to verbal art -- Contexts for speech play
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-178) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Plays on words.
Word games.
Figures of speech.
Joking.
Riddles.
Puns and punning.
French language -- Figures of speech.
riddles (documents)
REFERENCE.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Vocabulary.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
Play on words.
Word games.
Figures of speech.
Joking.
Riddles.
Puns and punning
Figures of speech
Joking
Plays on words
Riddles
Word games
Kulturanthropologie
Ethnolinguistik
Wortspiel
Humor
Woordspelingen.
Woordspelletjes.
Genre/Form Riddles
Puzzles and games
Puzzles and games.
Riddles.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0292796692
9780292796690