Language Questions
Barbara Strang, 17 July 1980
Beyond the Letter: A Philosophical Inquiry Into Ambiguity, Vagueness and Metaphor in Language
by Israel Scheffler.
Routledge, 146 pp., £8.50, November 1979,0 7100 0315 3 Show More
by Israel Scheffler.
Routledge, 146 pp., £8.50, November 1979,
Linguistic Perspectives on Literature
edited by Marvin Ching, Michael Haley and Ronald Lunsford.
Routledge, 332 pp., £9.50, March 1980,9780710003829 Show More
edited by Marvin Ching, Michael Haley and Ronald Lunsford.
Routledge, 332 pp., £9.50, March 1980,
“... Professor Roy Harris’s The Language Makers is the natural starting-point. His book comes oddly naked into the world: we have no statement about the aims or intended audience, no listing or titling (let alone running titles) of chapters, only the sketchiest of indexes to suggest what topics have been covered. It therefore behoves the reviewer to start with an account of what the objectives seem to have been ... ”
