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The view from language : selected essays, 1948-1974

Title
  1. The view from language : selected essays, 1948-1974 / by C.F. Hockett.
Published by
  1. Athens : University of Georgia Press, [1977]
  2. ©1977
Author
  1. Hockett, Charles Francis

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Description
  1. 338 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  1. Language and languages
  2. Linguistics
  3. Ethnology
  4. languages (study discipline)
  5. language (general communication)
  6. linguistics
  7. Ethnology
  8. Language and languages
  9. Linguistics
  10. Bibliografie
Genre/Form
  1. Bibliographie 1939-1974.
  2. Hockett, Charles F.
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Bibliography of the author's works, 1939-1976: p. [323]-329.
  2. Includes bibliographies and index.