Introductory Readings On Language

Type: Hardback Collectibles. 1962 Hardcover Book in Fair Condition. No jacket. 493 pages. Grey cloth red lettered, is smudgy with edgewear, tearing of cloth on bottom edge and spine heel, corners scuffed through cloth. Inner hinge cracked, ffep torn up spine hinge, underlined text--BUT pages are clean and not torn with some underlining and notes, AND the content is superb, in an area sadly neglected. An excellent reference for teachers of English, designed for the college freshman level. It deals with the Nature of Language; Word Forms and Meanings-word-making, analogical change, early American speech, Etymology, personal names, euphemisms; Metaphor; Semantics; Sounds of Language; Usage; Linguistic Geography; Structural Grammar; Clear Thinking--generalizations, post hoc, black or white, analogies, ambiguity. 1962, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, USA.