Language Through the Looking Glass
Exploring Language and Linguistics
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 5 November 1998
- ISBN 9780198700050
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages182 pages
- Size 216x138x11 mm
- Weight 237 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 9 halftones 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
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.
Using Lewis Carroll's Alice as a starting point, Marina Yaguello takes the reader on an unconventional voyage around language, charting the major themes of linguistics on the way. She shows that we can come to an understanding of language in general and of particular languages through exploring the devices of humour, word-games, and poetry -- devices which reveal the unconscious linguist in all of us. The result is an entertaining but rigorous introduction to language and linguistics for non-specialists and students alike.
Table of Contents:
Preface: Why Through a Looking Glass?
Introduction: So, You are a Linguist. . .
What Language is For
The Tower of Babel
Pink Elephants
The Canny Canner
Anti-dis-establish-ment-arian-ism
Did You Say Pig or Fig?
Words as Signs
A Rose By Any Other Name
The Incredible Lightness of Meaning
The House that Jack Built
Green Ideas
Murdering Time
The Miser and the Prodigal Son
Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Conclusion
