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What Happens When People Talk
What Happens When People Talk
By Peter Farb
By Peter Farb
By Peter Farb
By Peter Farb
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Paperback
$16.95
Mar 31, 1993 | ISBN 9780679734086
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Paperback $16.95
Mar 31, 1993 | ISBN 9780679734086
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“A captivating, almost entirely unpedantic book . . . solidly founded in scholarship, love of language, and an unabashed worldliness about play itself.” —Washington Post
“Absorbing . . . so curious, amusing, and enlightening . . . we almost inadvertently learn a great deal about linguistics. [But] it seems scarcely to matter what we’ve learned . . . we’ve simply had too much fun.” —The New York Times
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