ROALD DAHL’S USE OF LANGUAGE PLAY IN CHARLIE AND THE GREAT GLASS ELEVATOR
Trisnowati Tanto
Abstract
Nowadays playing with language has already become a common
thing that we do in our daily conversation, usually with the expected purpose of
making an utterance more attractive, humorous, and entertaining. If further
analysed, linguistically, language play actually makes use of the linguistic elements
such as those in the phonological, morphological, semantic and graphological
areas. In children’s books, language play is often used as a tool to make the
stories more attractive for children. This is gained from the pleasant sounds as well
as humorous meanings produced and also from more detailed and clearer
descriptions of the stories. These are the effects produced by the use of the
various items of language play, such as the use of unique similes, homophones
and homonyms, contradictory words, allusion, alliterations, spelling, etc. These all
are the reasons for a novel being special and unique.
Key words: Language play, linguistic elements, children.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.24198/sosiohumaniora.v10i2.5398
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