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The Importance of Language / ed. by Max Black.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1969Edition: Revised EditionDescription: 1 online resource (186 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501741319
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 408.2
LOC classification:
  • P105
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- FOREWORD -- CONTENTS -- Words and Their Meanings -- Thought and Language -- Bluspels and Flalansferes -- Poetic Diction and Legal Fiction -- The Language of Magic -- U and Non-U: An Essay in Sociological Linguistics -- The Resources of Language -- Essentially Contested Concepts -- The Theory of Meaning -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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."
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781501741319

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- FOREWORD -- CONTENTS -- Words and Their Meanings -- Thought and Language -- Bluspels and Flalansferes -- Poetic Diction and Legal Fiction -- The Language of Magic -- U and Non-U: An Essay in Sociological Linguistics -- The Resources of Language -- Essentially Contested Concepts -- The Theory of Meaning -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS

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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."

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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