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9780399537493 | Perigee, June 5, 2012, cover price $14.00
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9780399536953 | 1 edition (Perigee, October 4, 2011), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Challenge: Create an image out of a word, using only the letters in the word itself.
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9789027254276 | John Benjamins Pub Co, July 3, 2009, cover price $135.00
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9789027256164 | John Benjamins Pub Co, May 15, 2011, cover price $49.95
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9781883672508 | Tricycle Pr, August 1, 1997, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: An illustrated collection of verses, tongue twisters, riddles, and seemingly endless tales all of which feature a play on words and images
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9781582463681 | Reprint edition (Tricycle Pr, September 14, 2010), cover price $8.99 | About this edition: Hailed by the New York Times as a rare and original collection of "verbal and visual witticisms.
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9781571107831 | Stenhouse Pub, April 1, 2010, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Children have a natural affinity for language play; Pyrotechnics on the Page demonstrates how writing teachers can tap into it.
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9780195341447 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, December 9, 2009, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Plautus, Rome's earliest extant poet, was acclaimed by ancient critics above all for his mastery of language and his felicitous jokes; and yet in modern times relatively little attention has been devoted to elucidating these elements fully.
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9781598570564 | Pap/cdr re edition (Paul H Brookes Pub Co, September 8, 2009), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Understanding ambiguous words, phrases, and sentences is an important part of reading well, communicating skillfully, and enjoying humor based on word play.
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9781598570489 | Revised edition (Paul H Brookes Pub Co, April 30, 2009), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Kids love jokes and teachers and speech-language pathologists love fast and easy ways to improve students phonological awareness.
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9781845533304 | Equinox, January 30, 2008, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Humour permeates our lives.
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9780516250212 | Childrens Pr, March 1, 2006, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Rhyming text and illustrations play with the many meanings of the word wrinkle.
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9780516248608 | Childrens Pr, October 30, 2005, cover price $19.50 | About this edition: Rhyming text and illustrations play with the many meanings of the word wrinkle.
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9780767920759 | Reprint edition (Three Rivers Pr, November 1, 2005), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: An insightful look at ambigrams--words that are unchanged when inverted or reflected--shows how the shape of the letters can lend meaning to the word.
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9780820461519 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, June 13, 2005, cover price $72.95 | About this edition: *PLEASE NOTE ALL Z'S IN KRIZIZANOVSKIJ SHOULD HAVE LITTLE V'S OVER THEM* The phantasmagoric short stories and satirical novellas of the Russian modernist Sigizmund Krizizanovskij (1887-1950) are a unique amalgam of verbal pyrotechnics, scientific erudition, and philosophical contemplation.
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Product Description: `Professor Mahood's book has established itself as a classic in the field, not so much because of the ingenuity with which she reads Shakespeare's quibbles, but because her elucidation of pun and wordplay is intelligently related both to textual readings and dramatic significance...read more
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9780416295603 | Routledge Kegan & Paul, June 1, 1968, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: `Professor Mahood's book has established itself as a classic in the field, not so much because of the ingenuity with which she reads Shakespeare's quibbles, but because her elucidation of pun and wordplay is intelligently related both to textual readings and dramatic significance.
9780415036993 | 1 edition (Routledge, April 11, 1968), cover price $43.95 | About this edition: `Professor Mahood's book has established itself as a classic in the field, not so much because of the ingenuity with which she reads Shakespeare's quibbles, but because her elucidation of pun and wordplay is intelligently related both to textual readings and dramatic significance.
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Product Description: "[This book offers] the first general, unified, book-length treatment, from a linguistic-anthropological viewpoint, of Ospeech play.O ...Sherzer brings to bear a wide knowledge of relevant theory, as well as data from many human societies around the world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780292777682 | Univ of Texas Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: "[This book offers] the first general, unified, book-length treatment, from a linguistic-anthropological viewpoint, of Ospeech play.
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9780292777699 | Univ of Texas Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Puns, jokes, proverbs, riddles, play languages, verbal dueling, parallelism, metaphor, grammatical stretching and manipulation in poetry and song-- people around the world enjoy these forms of speech play and verbal artistry which form an intrinsic part of the fabric of their lives.
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Using examples from personally recorded conversations, Delia Chiaro examines the structure of jokes, quips, riddles and asides. She explores degrees of conformity to and deviation from established conventions; the "tellability" of jokes, and the interpretative role of the listener; the creative use of puns, word play and discourse. The emphasis in her analysis is on sociocultural contexts for the production and reception of jokes, and she examines the extent to which jokes are both universal in their appeal, and specific to a particular culture. This book should be of interest to introductory students, undergraduates and postgraduates of linguistics and literary studies.
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9780415030892 | Routledge, May 1, 1992, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Using examples from personally recorded conversations, Delia Chiaro examines the structure of jokes, quips, riddles and asides.
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9780415030908 | Routledge, May 1, 1992, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: In this highly readable and thought-provoking book, Delia Chiaro explores the pragmatics of word play, using frameworks normally adopted in descriptive linguistics.
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9780203135143 | Routledge, January 4, 2002, cover price $39.95
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9780203327562 | Routledge, May 1, 1992, cover price $55.00
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9781888222838 | Thinking Pubns, August 1, 2001, cover price $29.95
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9780226122052 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 11, 2001, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: In this exhilarating and often hilarious book, David Crystal examines why we devote so much time and energy to language games, how professionals make a career of them, and how young children instinctively take to them.
9780140273854 | Penguin Uk, June 1, 1999, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Amazon.
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9780813018799 | Univ Pr of Florida, May 1, 2001, cover price $59.95
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Product Description: Essays on on the use of word play in the books of the Old Testament as well as in ancient and medieval books and works in Sumerian, Canaanite, Akkadian, Syriac, Rabbinic Hebrew, and Arabic. This gathering of essays from renown scholars gives one an appreciation of the artistry that went into the composing and editing of these great works of literature...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781883053499 | Capital Decisions Ltd, March 1, 2000, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Essays on on the use of word play in the books of the Old Testament as well as in ancient and medieval books and works in Sumerian, Canaanite, Akkadian, Syriac, Rabbinic Hebrew, and Arabic.
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9780877791454 | Merriam Webster, September 1, 1999, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Collects acrostics, anagrams, palindromes, puns, puzzles, and other examples of word play
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9781888222371 | Thinking Pubns, March 1, 1999, cover price $21.95
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9780802786838 | Walker & Co, March 1, 1999, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A illustrated alphabet book using puns and wordplay
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9780802786845 | Walker & Co, March 1, 1999, cover price $16.85 | About this edition: A illustrated alphabet book using puns and wordplay
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9780812233896 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, May 1, 1997, cover price $39.95
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9780395851616 | Houghton Mifflin, April 1, 1997, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: A word play book with windows to open to find reversed phrases with different meanings
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9780226645841 | Univ of Chicago Pr, February 1, 1996, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: In the interpretation of Shakespeare, wordplay has often been considered inconsequential, frequently reduced to a decorative "quibble.
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9780226645858 | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 1, 1996, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: In the interpretation of Shakespeare, wordplay has often been considered inconsequential, frequently reduced to a decorative "quibble.
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