Sentence examples for language play from inspiring English sources

Like Beckett, Albee makes language play on the listener's ear and in his imagination.

Additional areas of investigation in the late 20th century were the cognitive systems and abilities underlying language acquisition and use (e.g., concept development, memory, and attention) and the relevance of social interaction (especially language play) between child and adult.

McKellen said: "When the National Theatre of Great Britain announced in its close-of-millennium poll that Waiting for Godot was the most significant English language play of the 20th century I agreed.

Part of the language play in this exchange happens between "seas" and "sees," a pun Joyce will suggest in the chapter that follows, when a bloviating old sailor reports, among other boasts, of his conquests in Gibraltar, Molly's birthplace.

Rimbaud's visionary ideals also proved attractive; his "unknown," somewhat domesticated in the form of the individual unconscious, became the hunting ground of the Surrealists, and his techniques of free association and language play, which they exploited so freely, became widely used.

Once, this venerable old tavern, which opened just after Prohibition ended, was a social club of sorts, where the Belgian immigrants who filled the neighborhood could speak their own language, play their own games, eat their own food and drink their own beer.

Thus, the language as language played a most important role.

He thought that spoken language played a central role in this development.

The discipline concerns itself with the part language plays in maintaining the social roles in a community.

Mamet's language plays like jazz: riffs of contrapuntal sound that create a force field of hilarity, sorrow, and fury.

Mr. Bloomberg's aversion to "gun control" reinforces the role that language plays in framing discourse on controversial issues.