Title: The view from language : selected essays, 1948-1974 /
Authors: Hockett, Charles Francis.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press,
Year: 1977
Subjects: Language and languages.; Linguistics.
Contents: Biophysics, linguistics and the unity of science -- Review of Shannon -- Chinese versus English: an exploration of the Whorfian theses -- The analysis of communication -- How to learn Martian -- Ethnolinguistic implications of recent studies in linguistics and psychiatry - Logical considerations in the study of animal communication -- The problem of universals in language -- Scheduling -- Notes on the creative process -- Cauchemar on creativity -- Where the tongue slips, there slip I -- Jokes -- Information, entropy, and the epistemology of history.