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Stanford University Press
Language
English
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523

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Subjects
Anthropological linguistics, Poetry, Proto-Indo-European language, Russian language, Social aspects, Social aspects of Russian language, Antropologische linguïstiek, Aspect social, Dialectes proto-indoeuropéens, Histoire et critique, Ethnolinguistique, Russe (Langue), Poésie, Linguistics
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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.
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"Bibliography of Paul Friedrich's works": p. [519]-523.
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Language science and national development

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301.2/1
Library of Congress
P35 .F7

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xiv, 523 p. ;
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523

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5503141
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