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5/5 Barnes & Noble Publication date 1949 Dewey Decimal 420.143 20 Publisher Harcourt OCLC 23137765 | 4.2/5 Goodreads Language English ISBN 978-0-15-648240-0 Originally published 1939 Genre Semantics Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Hardcover, Paperback, Audio Cassette Pages 196 pp (5th edition paperback) Linguistics books People in Quandaries, Course in General Linguistics, An Introduction to Langu, Anaphora: A Cross‑lin, Does Writing Have a F | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Language in Thought and Action is a book on semantics by Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, based on his previous work Language in Action published in 1939. Early editions were written in consultation with different people. The current 5th edition was published in 1991. It was updated by Hayakawa's son, Alan R. Hayakawa and has an introduction by Robert MacNeil. The book has sold over one million copies and has been translated into eight languages.
This book contains an in-depth treatise of thought-terminating phrases, other manipulative secrets of semantics, and an extensive bibliography.
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