Book of Donmon Teith

Puns, jokes, proverbs, riddles, play languages, verbal dueling, parallelism, metaphor, grammatical stretching and manipulation in poetry and song— people arou

From riddles to proverbs, from jingles to jokes, from mnemonics to pig Latin to dueling with words, speech play is central to social life in all of its forms. T

Actors need to learn not only how to use their voice, but to use voice and language together. This book is about the expressive potential of language, and how a

This book represents the complete range of verbal performances in a single Native American society.

This updated edition contains over 900 articles, which provide a detailed overview of theory and research in all branches of linguistics. Every known language i