num_pages: 426
description: How do we evaluate the power and utility of language when it has been manipulated to circumvent the truth at high levels or charged with vulgarity and imprecision by mass-consumer culture? How can fractured language adapt to the demands of more exact speech required by mathematics and symbolic notation? These are some of the questions addressed in this elegantly written book, first published in 1967 to international acclaim. 
language: English
title: Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature and the Inhuman
titlecomplete: Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature and the Inhuman
genres: Essays, Literary Criticism, Language, History, Philosophy, Theory, Criticism, Linguistics, Nonfiction, Literature
ratings_count: 254
publisher: Macmillan Pub Co