"play" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The merchant's contribution to linguistic play becomes especially distinct in the final dialogue, in bed with his wife.
- The phrase English as she is spoke is nowadays used allusively, in a form of linguistic play, as a stereotypical example of bad English grammar.
- This sense of linguistic play, usually missing from subcontinental poetry in English, is abundant in Hoskote's work.
- The poetry substitutes for the love and for the lovers - Astrophel's and Stella's reality is also only within the bounds of linguistic play.
- In each case linguistic play will be restricted by reference to something the language may not refer to at all.
- Virtually without expressiveness, wit or linguistic play, he seems to have wrung the neck of eloquence with such thoroughness that the verbal environment around him has become impoverished.
- K. Satchidanandan notes that his poems revel in linguistic play and thus interiorize the ontological essence of poetry.
- These devices can vary enormously in nature and scope: from the overall presentation of narrative structure down to linguistic play.
- Now the conversation varied as to the speaker's interest, allowing for a greater field of linguistic play.
- This kind of linguistic play with words and meaning, has marked the playwright for his interest and most keen observations on the aesthetics of language.
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