Book contents
- How Language Makes Meaning
- How Language Makes Meaning
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Examples
- Chapter 1 The Coin Toss
- Chapter 2 Deviance
- Chapter 3 Omission
- Chapter 4 Imprecision
- Chapter 5 Indirectness
- Chapter 6 Figurativeness
- Chapter 7 Language Play
- Chapter 8 THE Social Media
- Chapter 9 The Art of Language
- Chapter 10 The End Game
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
Chapter 7 - Language Play
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 October 2019
- How Language Makes Meaning
- How Language Makes Meaning
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Examples
- Chapter 1 The Coin Toss
- Chapter 2 Deviance
- Chapter 3 Omission
- Chapter 4 Imprecision
- Chapter 5 Indirectness
- Chapter 6 Figurativeness
- Chapter 7 Language Play
- Chapter 8 THE Social Media
- Chapter 9 The Art of Language
- Chapter 10 The End Game
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
Summary
The brief discussion of the George Carlin pun, “Atheism is a non-prophet organization,” at the end of the last chapter sets up the current chapter’s treatment of language play very nicely – with puns being a major way in which language can be playful.
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- How Language Makes MeaningEmbodiment and Conjoined Antonymy, pp. 120 - 141Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019