Thought and language / by Philip Boswood Ballard
1934, First Edition. London : University of London Press. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #440632
Physical description; 304 pages : diagrams ; 19 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; I. The three essentials -- II. Thoughts without words -- III. The meanings of words -- IV. The sentence 00 V. Predication -- VI. The grammarian's pitfalls -- VII. The shadow of Rome -- VIII. The vulgar tongue -- IX. Levels of complexity -- X. Towards simplicity -- XI. Style -- XII. The tyranny of the pedant -- XIII. Punctuation -- XIV. Poetry -- XV. The modernists. Subjects; Thought and thinking. Language and languages. Meaning (Psychology). Rhetoric. English language Rhetoric. Thinking. Language.
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