Dr Seuss's (Avant Garde Language.)
Dr Seuss also have avant-garde attitude towards language. For him languages do not have rules, language is a world that needs to be exploring, or expended. In his book “On Beyond Zebra!” Dr Seuss imagines a whole new alphabet that beyond Z, such as ‘YUZZ, ZATZ, FUDDLE’ and ‘FLUNN.’ “Suess literally goes after language itself – going beyond portmanteau words to give us portmanteau letters.” Says Pilip Nel. (Mason, 2004) Dr Seuss also provided a chance to question the linguistic structures of adults and society. For example, in the book there is a page that is ‘B is for Viking’. It is a joke for children who can read and recognized that B is for ‘Beaver’, though it is wearing Viking Helmet. But it reminded people that the similar pronunciation of alphabet ‘B’ and ‘V’ and the different sounds and shapes. This book also can embodies with the definition of literary nonsense as presenting ‘an unresolved tension […] between presence and absence of meaning’ by Wim Tigges ...