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MEANING AND THE STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE
Wallace
L.
Chafe
This book breaks once and for all with the linguist's traditional distrust
of meaning and approaches language deliberately and provocatively from
the semantic direction. The work has grown out of the author's conviction
that at the present time, as the shortcomings of the Chomskyan, or trans–
fonnational, theory have become increasingly apparent, linguistics needs
some new alternatives.
Mr. Chafe's sound knowledge of the theories he is disputing
along with the level-headedness and insight of his own approach have
produced an impressive work which promises to be of unusual significance
for the development of linguistics.
It
will interest students and teachers
of the English language, for it provides a model and many examples af a
semantically oriented English grammar. Students of human evolution will
find in the early chapters a systematic presentation of the ways in which
language differs from "primitive symbolization systems" like those of
non-human primates.
LC: 79-114855
362 pages
$10.50
POPE AND THE CONTEXT OF CONTROVERSY
The Manipulation of Ideas in
An Essay on Man
Douglas H. White
In this study, the author extracts a group of related ideas from Alexander
Pope's
An Essay
011
Man
and submits them to a kind of scrutiny that is
more closely related to intellectual history than to explication of texts. or
to poetics. He clarifies some of the key issues that arose in the philosophical
and theological controversies of the early eighteenth century.
Since Pope wrote on several subjects that his contemporaries
held to be sufficiently vital to warrant whole volumes of assertion and
rebuttal, we in the twentieth century can profit from knowing what the
bases of disagreement were and what range of reactions certain key ideas
elicited. Pope's own comment on his purpose suggests that he was properly
placing himself within a range of ideas, since he asserts that he was
"steering betwixt extremes of doctrine seemingly opposite."
LC:70-120009
208 pages
$9.00
A REFERENCE GUIDE TO ENGLISH STUDIES
Second Edition
Compiled
by
Donald F. Bond
This compact reference guide, designed primarily for the graduate student
in English, attempts to clear the way through the enormous-even alarm–
ing-number of publications which the student faces in beginning work on
a dissertation or in exploring any area of English literature or allied
fields. Since the yearly output of scholarly publications in English and
American literature has nearly doubled in the last decade, the present
Guide
attempts to restrict the material to the indispensable references.
Listings are divided into groups of general sources, literary
bibliographies and references, and select fields allied to literary studies.
Two indexes, one of names and one of subjects, provide further assistance
in locating particular works.
LC:79-130307
174
pages
+
index
Cloth
$6.85
Paper $2.45
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