The Importance of Language / / ed. by Max Black.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Barfield, Owen,; Butler, Samuel,; Gallie, W. B.,; Huxley, Aldous,; Lewis, C. S.,; Malinowski, Bronislaw,; Ross, Alan S. C.,; Ryle, Gilbert,; Waismann, Friedrich,
• HerausgeberIn: Black, Max,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1969
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: Revised Edition
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (186 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501741319; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501741319
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Max Black.

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."