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Language Through The Looking Glass

Using Lewis Carroll's Alice as a starting point, Marina Yaguello charts the major themes of linguistics on the way. She shows that we can come to an understanding of language through exploring the devices of humour, word-games, and poetry devices which reveal the unconscious linguist in all of us.
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Using Lewis Carroll's Alice as a starting point, Marina Yaguello charts the major themes of linguistics on the way. She shows that we can come to an understanding of language through exploring the devices of humour, word-games, & poetry devices which reveal the unconscious linguist in all of us.

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Glass - A solid, typically transparent. Brittle and used in windows. The first patent granted in the UK was for Glass.
Humour - Something either verbal of physical that provides amusement and can provoke laughter
Language - the method of communication used in different areas. Humans and computers have many different languages.
Language - The way humans communicate either written and spoken.

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