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Language in thought and action / S.I. Hayakawa ; in consultation with Arthur Asa Berger and Arthur Chandler.
LIBRA PE1585 .H36 1978
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hayakawa, S. I. (Samuel Ichiyé), 1906-1992
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Semantics.
- English language.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 318 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- 4th ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, ©1978.
- Contents:
- Language and survival
- Symbols
- Reports, inferences, judgments
- Contexts
- The double task of language
- The language of social cohesion
- The language of social control
- The language of affective communication
- Art and tension
- How we know what we know
- The little man who wasn't there
- The society behind our symbols
- Classification
- The two-valued orientation
- The multi-valued orientation
- Poetry and advertising
- The dime in the juke box
- Rats and men
- Toward order within and without.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 301.305) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Hayakawa, S.I. (Samuel Ichiyé), 1906-1992. Language in thought and action.
- ISBN:
- 0155501194
- 9780155501195
- OCLC:
- 3934089
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