Language in Action

HAYAKAWA, S. I. (Samuel Ichiye') 1906-1992

Published by New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1941

About this Item

First Edition hardcover. Publisher's black cloth with titles on yellow pastedown on spine. Pastedown lightly soiled and missing one corner. Cloth mildly spotted; corners rubbed and lightly bumped. Binding tight and square. Torn and missing corner pgs 45&46. pps. [xiii]; 345 pages including index. Age toned, unmarked pages. A very good copy. "What this book hopes to do is to present certain principles of interpretation, or semantic principles, which are intended to act as a kind of intellectual air-purifying and air-conditioning system to prevent the poisons of verbal superstition, primitive linguistic assumptions, and the more pernicious forms of propaganda from entering our systems."/Introduction by author. Seller Inventory # 22118

Bibliographic Details

Title: Language in Action

Publisher: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company

Publication Date: 1941

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition