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Demonstrates how form in language helps determine the meaning of texts by describing verse and prose as structures, the components of which are primarily linguistic, and by seeing the form of those components as part of the content. Continues Shapiro's (Slavic languages, Brown U.) general line of research contributing to the cognitive study of representative texts and examples from Russian, English, Romance, Japanese, and ancient Greek literature. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Michael Shapiro is Professor of Slavic Languages at Brown University and has taught at the University of California and Princeton University. He is the author or editor of more than ten books including, The Sense of Grammar and The Sense of Change.
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