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Over several generations villagers of Dominica have been shifting from Patwa, an Afro-French creole, to English, the official language. Despite government effor

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 implicat

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