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 o

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 implicat

Interest in language play and linguistic creativity has increased in recent years, and the topic has been taken up from a variety of perspectives. In this book,

Language Play and Children's Literacy celebrates the contribution of language play to children's understanding of how language can be used for play and impact.

A multimodal approach to linguistic landscapes that analyses the affective regimes of different landscape categories.