Title: The language parallax
First published: 1986
Description: Argues that the "locus and focus" of differences among languages lies not so much in practical or rational aspects as in the complexity and richness of more poetic dimensions--in the nuances of words, or the style and voice of an author. This poetic reformulation of what has been called "linguistic relativism" is grounded in the author's theory of the imagination as a main source of poetic indeterminacy and, ultimately, disorder and chaos.
Subjects: Language and languages, Philosophy, Poetry, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, Filosofía, Sapir-Whorf, Hypothèse de, Lenguas, Poésie, Taalfilosofie, Relativisme, Langage et langues, Philosophie, Langues, Linguistics, Poetics
LC classification: P35 .F72 1986