Speech Play : : Research and Resources for the Study of Linguistic Creativity / / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• HerausgeberIn: Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1976
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Conduct and Communication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (308 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Joel Sherzer --; 1. Play Languages: Implications for (Socio) Linguistics --; 2. Secret Play Languages in Saramaka: Linguistic Disguise in a Caribbean Creole --; 3. Some Zinacanteco Joking Strategies --; 4. Children's Traditional Speech Play and Child Language --; 5. A Developmental Structural Account of Riddles --; 6. Verbal Dueling in Chamula --; 7. How to Remember Numbers in Japanese --; 8. Saying Is Inventing: Gnomic Expressions in Molloy --; 9. Directions for Future Research --; 10. Bibliographic Survey of the Literature on Speech Play and Related Subjects --; Bibliography --; Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512803150; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512803150
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett.

From riddles to proverbs, from jingles to jokes, from mnemonics to pig Latin to dueling with words, speech play is central to social life in all of its forms. These essays describe a variety of speech play genres, formulate the "rules" for play with language, and discuss the relevance of speech play to current issues in linguistic theory, cognitive development, and the ethnography of speaking.