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.
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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.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First edition, first printing. Text is unmarked; pages are bright, though the page edges are age toned and lightly foxed. Binding is sturdy. Dust jacket is edgeworn, especially along the top edge; the top corner of the dust jacket is price clipped. The dust jacket spine is faded. 426pp.
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