Logology (linguistics)

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.

Notable logologists

 * Dmitri Borgmann
 * A. Ross Eckler, Jr.
 * Willard R. Espy
 * Jeremiah Farrell
 * Martin Gardner
 * Mike Keith
 * Douglas Hofstadter
 * Lila Maria de Coninck

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–.