The Importance of Language /

The Importance of Language / / 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 Bu...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (186 p.)
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Table of 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

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