Language in Action
by HAYAKAWA, S. I
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1940. Hardcover. A work in the field of semantics by academic S. I. Hayakawa in which he explores the importance of the precise use of language. The topics in this work were expanded upon in the author's later work "Language in Thought and Action." --- In full black cloth-covered boards with titling on yellow and white paper spine label. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- A clean, bright, tightly-bound copy, though with a little soiling to cloth. Interior is unmarked and bright.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xiii, 345 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88315
- Title
- Language in Action
- Author
- HAYAKAWA, S. I
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1940
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