logology (linguistics)
{{Short description|Activity that encompasses a wide variety of word games and wordplay}}
{{Other uses|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.{{cite web|last=Farrell|first=Jeremiah|title=Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics|url=http://wordways.com/|access-date=3 July 2011}}
Notable logologists
- Dmitri Borgmann
- A. Ross Eckler, Jr.
- Willard R. Espy
- Jeremiah Farrell
- Martin Gardner
- Mike Keith
- Douglas Hofstadter
- Lila Maria de Coninck
See also
References
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Bibliography
=Books=
- {{cite book|title=Palindromes and Anagrams |last=Bergerson |first=Howard W. |publisher=Dover Publications |year=1973 |location=New York}}
- {{cite book |title=Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature |last=Bombaugh |first=C.C. |year=1961 |publisher=Dover Publications |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/odditiescuriosit00bomb|url-access=registration }}
- {{cite book|last=Borgmann|first=Dmitri|title=Language on Vacation: An Olio of Orthographical Oddities |year=1965|publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons|location=New York}}
- {{cite book|last=Borgmann|first=Dmitri|title=Beyond Language: Adventures in Word and Thought |year=1967|publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons|location=New York}}
- {{cite book|last=Eckler|first=A. Ross Jr.|title=Making the Alphabet Dance: Recreational Wordplay |year=1997|publisher=St. Martin's Press|location=New York|isbn=0-312-15580-8}}
- {{cite encyclopedia
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=Periodicals=
- Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics. Greenwood Periodicals et al., 1968–. ISSN 0043-7980.
- The Palindromist. Mark Saltveit, 1996–.
- The Enigma. National Puzzlers' League, 1883–.