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003 OCoLC
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008 850618s1986 txu b s001 0 eng
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035 $a(Sirsi) l85015091
035 $a(OCoLC)12236734$z(OCoLC)59803396
040 $aOPET$beng
050 00 $aP35$b.F72 1986
082 00 $a306/.4$219
084 $a73.64$2bcl
100 1 $aFriedrich, Paul,$d1927-
245 14 $aThe language parallax :$blinguistic relativism and poetic indeterminacy /$cby Paul Friedrich.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aAustin :$bUniversity of Texas Press,$c1986.
300 $axii, 192 p. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aTexas linguistics series
504 $aBibliography: p. [161]-180.
520 $aArgues that the "locus and focus" of differences among languages lies not so much in practical or rational aspects as in the complexity and richness of more poetic dimensions--in the nuances of words, or the style and voice of an author. This poetic reformulation of what has been called "linguistic relativism" is grounded in the author's theory of the imagination as a main source of poetic indeterminacy and, ultimately, disorder and chaos.
500 $aIncludes indexes.
650 0 $aSapir-Whorf hypothesis.
650 0 $aPoetry.
650 0 $aLanguage and languages$xPhilosophy.