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Language, context, and the imagination

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Language, context, and the imagination: essays
1979, Stanford University Press
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Table of Contents

The symbol: The symbol and its relative non-arbitrariness.
Symbol and context in time; Russia: Structural implications of Russian pronominal usage. Semantic structure and social structure; an instance from Russian. The linguistic reflex of social change; from tsarist to Soviet Russian kinship.
Proto-Indo-European: Proto-Indo-European kinship. Proto-Indo-European trees. The Proto-Indo-European goddess of dawn, Awsos.
Symbolic and contextual planes: Dialectical variation in Tarascan phonology. Shape categories in grammar. On the meaning of the Tarascan suffixes of space.
Language, poetic language, and the imagination: Metaphor-like relations between referential subsets. Speech as a personality symbol; the case of Achilles. Poetic language and the imagination; a reformulaton of the Sapir hypothesis.
Author's postscript.

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"Bibliography of Paul Friedrich's works": p. [519]-523.
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Stanford, Calif
Series
Language science and national development

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Dewey Decimal Class
301.2/1
Library of Congress
P35 .F7

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xiv, 523 p. ;
Number of pages
523

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OL4747197M
Internet Archive
languagecontexti0000frie
ISBN 10
0804710228
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78065328
OCLC/WorldCat
5503141
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1732680
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3920722

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