Playing on the edge of language

The book B.Yu.Norman, a famous linguist, tells that the language is not only for human communication, the transfer of information, self-expression, but also for many other things: he entertains, mixes, surprises, admire ... We are talking about all sorts of varieties of language Games understood as wide as possible. The Creator here turns out to be an ordinary person, and the object of observation and reflection - verbal jokes, jokes, calabura, mass poetic creativity, etc., right up to speech and tissue. The book also provides rich material from Russian fiction and folklore, including modern. Completes the book by a humorous Entimological Dictionary, awarded at one time award of the 16th page of the literary newspaper and caused an entire avalanche of imitation. This is today the most complete (more than 2000 words) a list of humorous wrappers, which, as it turns out, is and a completely serious scientific aspect.
The book is designed for a wide reader audience, primarily students, schoolchildren of senior classes, all connoisseurs of humor and lovers of the Russian word