Language, context, and the imagination
Subtitle: essays
By: by Paul Friedrich ; selected and introduced by Anwar S. Dil.
Contributors: Dil, Anwar S.
Series: Language science and national development
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 523
Subjects: Anthropological linguistics.; Russian language -- Social aspects.; Proto-Indo-European language.; Poetry.
Notes: "Bibliography of Paul Friedrich's works": p. [519]-523.
Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: The symbol: The symbol and its relative non-arbitrariness.; title: Symbol and context in time; Russia: Structural implications of Russian pronominal usage. Semantic structure and social structure; an instance from Russian. The linguistic reflex of social change; from tsarist to Soviet Russian kinship.; title: Proto-Indo-European: Proto-Indo-European kinship. Proto-Indo-European trees. The Proto-Indo-European goddess of dawn, Awsos.; title: Symbolic and contextual planes: Dialectical variation in Tarascan phonology. Shape categories in grammar. On the meaning of the Tarascan suffixes of space.; title: Language, poetic language, and the imagination: Metaphor-like relations between referential subsets. Speech as a personality symbol; the case of Achilles. Poetic language and the imagination; a reformulaton of the Sapir hypothesis.; title: Author's postscript.