About this title: An introduction to the study of semantics, which examines human interaction through communication, toward a more sophisticated understanding of the role of language in life, the complex functions language performs and the way language, sometimes without knowing, shapes our thinking.
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Description: Acceptable. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: George Allen & Unwin
Date Published: 1966
Description: Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in good all round condition. Ships within 24 hours. Second Edition. How men use words and words use men, 650grams, ISBN: read more
Description: Good. Good condition, clean covers with light wear at edges, square spine with wear at top, spine has reinforcing tape, tight binding, Pages and text clean with one underline. read more
Edition: 3rd ed.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Date Published: 1972
ISBN-13:9780155501188ISBN:0155501186
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. 289 p. Audience: General/trade. Inside is rather clean, no marks that I noticed. Some wear along the edge, couple of crease, bend corners and a bump on the spine. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HARCOURT BRACE & WORLD
Date Published: 1964
Description: Good. This book is Ex-School-library and contains typical ex-library markings. Pages are clean and Tight. SUMMARY: Second Edition-Vintage PB Textbook on Language. read more
Edition: Second Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Harcourt Brace and World, New York
Date Published: 1964
Description: Fair. No Jacket as Issued. Corners bumped. Wear and scuffs to the spine. Stains and soiling to the covers. Underlinings. Previous owner's name on the front page. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace, New York
Date Published: 1949
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. x, 307, [xi]-xxxvi p. 21 cm. Based on the author's Language in action, first published in 1939. "Select. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harcourt Australia
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780155501195ISBN:0155501194
Description: Good. 216-V-Add. Ex-library. Books rated "Good" may have some notes, underlining, or highlighting. These books also may contain the previous owner's name, stamp, sticker, or gift inscription, or may be library discards. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Book is in good reading condition. Cover has wear at edges and corners, and may have creases. Spine has wear at edges and creases. read more
"This book taps into that great Niagara of information that surrounds us in everyday life, language. The author puts this fascinating flow of information under the microscope and shares with the reader important insights into how the sounds we call words and their meanings affect thoughts and have shaped human's actions."
"This is one of the most enlightening books I have ever read. Hayakawa is the kind of incredibly bright mind whose writing can make you think more methodically, conclude things more confidently, and feel smarter yourself. Somehow he seems like a friend at tea - but his observations are so clear that you wonder how he can outside enough to notice all this, and inside enough to feel familiar and patient and maybe kind. Thus, this non-fiction book was far, far more of a page turner for me than most books of fiction that I've read (and liked) lately. If he has a moral message it is unobtrusive, unassuming, and the kind of lesson that any reader who's heard any of what he's said simply must draw for herself. Come to think of it, he argues rather like lawyers should - so that the conclusion the author desires, never once spoken, is inevitable, obvious in the silence after the speech.
Hayakawa compares any use of language to the practice of drawing a map of a physical territory. Depending on how good the mapmaker is and his motivations, that map can resemble the territory very reliably, or not at all. And from this simple metaphor he draws an impeccably conscientious account of the kind of things we do when we use language, and the implications for us as actors in the world. Someday I hope to have read it enough times that I can hold all the concepts in my head at once and provide something like a summary - but until then all I can say is that more than one of Hayakawa's descriptions rang true for me in a way that clarified things about myself and my world that I'd always suspected emotionally, but never been able to articulate.
I think this book should be required reading in schools - I think we should all take courses on how we use language, why we use it those ways, what it says about us that we do, and--especially--how our ways of using language affect our ways of thinking and, ultimately experiencing and behaving in the world."
"I had to read this book in college (late 60's) and later bought a used copy to read again (early 90's). Have since read it a 3rd time. I dreaded the prospect of reading it in college, but found it surprising and readable. It's somewhat dated but still an excellent book and in my opinion should be required reading by all."
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