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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Cambridge Univ Pr
Publication date
February 16, 2016
Pages
359
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781107123915
ISBN-10
1107123917
Dimensions
1 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.55 lbs.
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$89.99
Other format details
university press
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: From the barbed, childish taunt on the school playground, to the eloquent sophistry of a lawyer prising open a legal loophole in a court of law, meaning arises each time we use language to communicate with one another. How we use language - to convey ideas, make requests, ask a favour, and express anger, love or dismay - is of the utmost importance; indeed, linguistic meaning can be a matter of life and death. In The Crucible of Language, Vyvyan Evans explains what we know, and what we do, when we communicate using language; he shows how linguistic meaning arises, where it comes from, and the way language enables us to convey the meanings that can move us to tears, bore us to death, or make us dizzy with delight. Meaning is, he argues, one of the final frontiers in the mapping of the human mind.
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Hardcover
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from Cambridge Univ Pr (February 16, 2016)
9781107123915 | details & prices | 359 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.55 lbs | List price $89.99
About: From the barbed, childish taunt on the school playground, to the eloquent sophistry of a lawyer prising open a legal loophole in a court of law, meaning arises each time we use language to communicate with one another.
About: From the barbed, childish taunt on the school playground, to the eloquent sophistry of a lawyer prising open a legal loophole in a court of law, meaning arises each time we use language to communicate with one another.
Paperback
from Cambridge Univ Pr (February 16, 2015)
9781107561038 | details & prices | 359 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 1.34 lbs | List price $29.99
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