Word play; what happens when people talk.
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: Language and languages.; Psycholinguistics.; Verbal behavior.
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.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [335]-350.

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