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Language in Action
by Hayakawa, S.I
- Used
- Condition
- Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight.
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1941. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight.. 8vo 345pp. First book by linguist and semioticist, before his more widely popular Language in Thought and Action. from Introduction: "What this book hopes to do is to present certain principles of interpretation, or semantic principles, which are intended to act as a kind of intellectual air-purifying and air-conditioning system to prevent the poisons of verbal superstition, primitive linguistic assumptions, and the more pernicious forms of propaganda from entering our systems." #02612.
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- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2547
- Title
- Language in Action
- Author
- Hayakawa, S.I
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1941
- Keywords
- language, semiotics, propaganda, philosophy, nonfiction
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About the Seller
Matthew's Books LLC
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Chattanooga, Tennessee
About Matthew's Books LLC
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