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The Importance of Language / Max Black.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language Arts & Linguistics.
- Local Subjects:
- Language Arts & Linguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (186 p.)
- Edition:
- Revised Edition
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- In this collection of essays, Max Black has brought together discussions on the language of politics, religion, poetry, law, and even magic. The scholars represented include W. B. Gallie, Aldous Huxley, Gilbert Ryle, Friedrich Waismann, Alan S. C. Ross, Bronislaw Malinowski, Owen Barfield, Samuel Butler, and C. S. Lewis. The selected essays deal with the danger, the power, and the extraordinary versatility of language, and show how "all of us can get our thoughts entangled in metaphors."
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- FOREWORD
- CONTENTS
- Words and Their Meanings / Huxley, Aldous
- Thought and Language / Butler, Samuel
- Bluspels and Flalansferes / Lewis, C. S.
- Poetic Diction and Legal Fiction / Barfield, Owen
- The Language of Magic / Malinowski, Bronislaw
- U and Non-U: An Essay in Sociological Linguistics / Ross, Alan S. C.
- The Resources of Language / Waismann, Friedrich
- Essentially Contested Concepts / Gallie, W. B.
- The Theory of Meaning / Ryle, Gilbert
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781501741319
- 1501741314
- OCLC:
- 1129190921
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