Logology_(linguistics)

Logology (linguistics)

Logology (linguistics)

Activity that encompasses a wide variety of word games and wordplay

For other uses, see Logology (disambiguation).

Logology (or ludolinguistics) is the field of recreational linguistics, an activity that encompasses a wide variety of word games and wordplay. The term is analogous to the term "recreational mathematics".

Overview

Some of the topics studied in logology are lipograms, acrostics, palindromes, tautonyms, isograms, pangrams, bigrams, trigrams, tetragrams, transdeletion pyramids, and pangrammatic windows.

The term logology was adopted by Dmitri Borgmann to refer to recreational linguistics.[1]

Notable logologists

See also

Look up logology (linguistics) in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

References

  1. [1]
    Farrell, Jeremiah. "Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics". Retrieved 3 July 2011.

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