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• catalog abstract "Introduces the principles of semantics, explains how language works, and how an understanding of semantics is useful in everyday life situations.".
• catalog contributor b2145998.
• catalog created "[c1964]".
• catalog date "1964".
• catalog date "[c1964]".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "[c1964]".
• catalog description "Bibliography: p. 331-336.".
• catalog description "Book One: The functions of language -- Foreword: Red-Eye and the woman problem: A semantic parable -- 1. Language and survival -- What animals shall we imitate? -- Cooperation -- The pooling of knowledge -- The Niagara of words -- Applications -- 2. Symbols -- The symbolic process -- Language as symbolism -- The pitfalls of drama -- The word is not the thing -- Maps and territories -- Applications -- 3. Reports, inferences, judgments -- Verifiability -- Inferences -- Judgments -- Snarl words and purr words -- How judgments stop thought -- Slanting -- Discovering one's bias -- Applications -- 4. Contexts -- How dictionaries are made -- Verbal and physical contexts -- Extensional and intensional meaning -- The "one word, one meaning" fallacy -- Ignoring contexts -- The interaction of words -- Applications -- 5. The language of social cohesion -- Noises as expression -- Noise for noise's sake -- The value of unoriginal remarks -- maintenance of communication lines -- Presymbolic language in ritual -- Advice to the literal-minded -- Applications -- 6. The double task of language -- Connotations -- Informative connotations -- Affective connotations -- A note on verbal taboo -- Words with built-in judgments -- Everyday uses of language -- Applications -- 7. The language of social control -- Making things happen -- The promises of directive language -- The foundations of society -- Directives with collective sanction -- What are "rights"? -- Directives and disillusionment -- Applications -- 8. The language of affective communication -- Verbal hypnotism -- More affective elements -- Metaphor and simile -- Simile -- Dead metaphor -- Allusion -- Irony, pathos, and humor -- The affectiveness of facts -- Levels of writing -- What literature is for -- Symbolic experience -- Science and literature -- Applications -- 9. Art and tension -- Bearing the unbearable -- Some "symbolic strategies" -- "Equipment for living" -- Art as order -- Applications".
• catalog description "Book Two: Language and thought -- Foreword: The story of A-town and B-ville: Second semantic parable -- 10. How we know what we know -- Bessie, the cow -- The process of abstracting -- Why we must abstract -- On definitions -- "Let's define our terms" -- Operational definitions -- Chasing oneself in verbal circles -- The distrust of abstractions -- "Dead-level abstracting" -- Applications -- 11. The little man who wasn't there -- How not to start a car -- Confusion of levels of abstraction -- "Jews" -- John Doe, the "criminal" -- Delusional worlds -- Applications -- 12. Classification -- Giving things names -- The blocked mind -- Cow1 is not cow2 -- "Truth" -- Applications -- 13. The two-valued orientation -- The two-valued orientation in politics -- Man's inhumanity to man -- The Marxist two-valued orientation -- Two-valued logic -- Defeating one's own ends -- Applications -- 14. The multi-valued orientation -- A matter of degree -- The pitfalls of debate -- The open and closed mind -- Applications -- 15. Poetry and advertising -- The poet's function -- Art and life -- The laureate's task -- The problems of the unsponsored poet -- The symbols we live by -- Symbols for our times -- Applications -- 16. The dime in the juke-box -- Intensional orientation -- Oververbalization -- Advertising and intensional orientation -- Higher education, learned jargon, and Babuism -- Applications -- 17. Rats and men -- "Insoluble" problems -- Cultural lag -- The fear of change -- The revision of group habits -- The extensional approach -- The end of the road -- The scientific attitude -- The left-hand door again -- Applications -- 18. Towards order within and without -- Rules for extensional orientation -- Symptoms of disorder -- The lost children -- "Know thyself" -- Reports and judgments -- Institutionalized attitudes -- Reading towards sanity.".
• catalog description "Introduces the principles of semantics, explains how language works, and how an understanding of semantics is useful in everyday life situations.".
• catalog extent "xvii, 350 p.".
• catalog hasFormat "Language in thought and action.".
• catalog isFormatOf "Language in thought and action.".
• catalog issued "1964".
• catalog issued "[c1964]".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York, Harcourt, Brace & World".
• catalog relation "Language in thought and action.".
• catalog subject "425".
• catalog subject "English language Semantics.".
• catalog subject "PE1585 .H36 1964".
• catalog tableOfContents "Book One: The functions of language -- Foreword: Red-Eye and the woman problem: A semantic parable -- 1. Language and survival -- What animals shall we imitate? -- Cooperation -- The pooling of knowledge -- The Niagara of words -- Applications -- 2. Symbols -- The symbolic process -- Language as symbolism -- The pitfalls of drama -- The word is not the thing -- Maps and territories -- Applications -- 3. Reports, inferences, judgments -- Verifiability -- Inferences -- Judgments -- Snarl words and purr words -- How judgments stop thought -- Slanting -- Discovering one's bias -- Applications -- 4. Contexts -- How dictionaries are made -- Verbal and physical contexts -- Extensional and intensional meaning -- The "one word, one meaning" fallacy -- Ignoring contexts -- The interaction of words -- Applications -- 5. The language of social cohesion -- Noises as expression -- Noise for noise's sake -- The value of unoriginal remarks -- maintenance of communication lines -- Presymbolic language in ritual -- Advice to the literal-minded -- Applications -- 6. The double task of language -- Connotations -- Informative connotations -- Affective connotations -- A note on verbal taboo -- Words with built-in judgments -- Everyday uses of language -- Applications -- 7. The language of social control -- Making things happen -- The promises of directive language -- The foundations of society -- Directives with collective sanction -- What are "rights"? -- Directives and disillusionment -- Applications -- 8. The language of affective communication -- Verbal hypnotism -- More affective elements -- Metaphor and simile -- Simile -- Dead metaphor -- Allusion -- Irony, pathos, and humor -- The affectiveness of facts -- Levels of writing -- What literature is for -- Symbolic experience -- Science and literature -- Applications -- 9. Art and tension -- Bearing the unbearable -- Some "symbolic strategies" -- "Equipment for living" -- Art as order -- Applications".
• catalog tableOfContents "Book Two: Language and thought -- Foreword: The story of A-town and B-ville: Second semantic parable -- 10. How we know what we know -- Bessie, the cow -- The process of abstracting -- Why we must abstract -- On definitions -- "Let's define our terms" -- Operational definitions -- Chasing oneself in verbal circles -- The distrust of abstractions -- "Dead-level abstracting" -- Applications -- 11. The little man who wasn't there -- How not to start a car -- Confusion of levels of abstraction -- "Jews" -- John Doe, the "criminal" -- Delusional worlds -- Applications -- 12. Classification -- Giving things names -- The blocked mind -- Cow1 is not cow2 -- "Truth" -- Applications -- 13. The two-valued orientation -- The two-valued orientation in politics -- Man's inhumanity to man -- The Marxist two-valued orientation -- Two-valued logic -- Defeating one's own ends -- Applications -- 14. The multi-valued orientation -- A matter of degree -- The pitfalls of debate -- The open and closed mind -- Applications -- 15. Poetry and advertising -- The poet's function -- Art and life -- The laureate's task -- The problems of the unsponsored poet -- The symbols we live by -- Symbols for our times -- Applications -- 16. The dime in the juke-box -- Intensional orientation -- Oververbalization -- Advertising and intensional orientation -- Higher education, learned jargon, and Babuism -- Applications -- 17. Rats and men -- "Insoluble" problems -- Cultural lag -- The fear of change -- The revision of group habits -- The extensional approach -- The end of the road -- The scientific attitude -- The left-hand door again -- Applications -- 18. Towards order within and without -- Rules for extensional orientation -- Symptoms of disorder -- The lost children -- "Know thyself" -- Reports and judgments -- Institutionalized attitudes -- Reading towards sanity.".
• catalog title "Language in thought and action [by] S. I. Hayakawa, in consultation with Leo Hamalian and Geoffrey Wagner.".
• catalog type "text".