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Language Play, Language Learning

Paperback • 2000 • English • 1. edition

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About the book

This book has two related purposes. The first is to demonstrate the extent and importance of language play in human life; the second is to draw out the implications for applied linguistics and language teaching. Language play should not be thought of as a trivial or peripheral activity, but as central to human thought and culture, to learning, creativity, and intellectual enquiry. It fulfils a major function of language, underpinning the human capacity to adapt: as individuals, as societies, and...Show more

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9780194421539

Publisher

OUP Oxford

Published year

2000

Language

English

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1

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Language Play, Language Learning

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Paperback

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