| Description |
xvii, 289 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Book one. The functions of language. Language and survival -- Symbols -- Reports, inferences, judgements -- Contexts -- The double task of language -- The language of social cohesion -- The language of social control -- The language of affective communication -- Art and tension -- Book two. Language and thought. How we know what we know -- The little man who wasn't there -- 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 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 275-278 |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
English language -- Semantics.
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English language
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English language
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Semantics.
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| LC no. |
75182338 |
| ISBN |
0155501186 |
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