Cook, Guy (2000). Language Play, Language Learning. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
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Abstract
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 implications for applied linguistics and language teaching. Language play should not be thought of as a trivial or peripheral activity, but as central to human thought and culture, to learning, creativity, and intellectual enquiry. It fulfils a major function of language, underpinning the human capacity to adapt: as individuals, as societies, and as a species.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| ISBN: | 0-19-442153-8, 978-0-19-442153-9 |
| Academic Unit/School: | Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Languages and Applied Linguistics Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET) |
| Item ID: | 12604 |
| Depositing User: | Guy Cook |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Dec 2008 03:34 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Oct 2016 10:16 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/12604 |
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