The book "Yazykovaya igra" by Ol'ga Ermachkova offers a comprehensive analysis of linguistic games in public discourse that have gained significance in the postmodern era. It examines how linguistic games are employed in various functional styles, particularly in journalistic style, to enhance expressiveness and originality. The author highlights the aesthetic effects of these games on the readership and analyzes their role in masking subtexts and realizing irony. Through the analysis of newspaper headlines that contain elements of precedence and wordplay, a deeper insight is provided into the reasons for the use of these phenomena. The book is aimed at professionals in general and comparative linguistics, Slavistics educators, and students of the humanities.