Word Play: What Happens when People Talk |
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The Ecology of Language | 17 |
The Speakable and the Unspeakable | 83 |
Verbal Dueling | 107 |
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adult Africa American animals apparent argot baby talk behavior Black English child chimpanzee Chinese color consonants conversation creole creole language culture dialect dictionary discussed E. E. Cummings English language English speakers English words English-speaking Eskimo Esperanto example exist experiment express fact female French fuck gestures glish glossolalia grammar guage heard honorifics Hopi human Indian insults Japanese joke kind language game Latin linguistic listener male meaning morphemes munity native speaker noun Nupe obscene paralanguage person Peter Farb phemes phonemes phrases pidgin play Poussaint pronounced pronunciation refers relationships result riddles rules sentence signals simply slang social someone sounds speak speaker of English speech community speech situations spoken Standard English statement strategies structure style suffixes syllables taboo words talk tence things tion tongue translation unconsciously usually utterances verb verbal dueling vocabulary vowels women Yokuts