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México, D.F.: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1987
Description
""Reading this volume transported me back to Harvard and MIT lecture halls of the 1960's, where weekly Roman Jakobson would spellbind his audience (this reviewer included), developing his vision of language through impassioned exposition, deft and devastating allusions to critical literature, anecdotes with the force of parables, metaphors of mythic imagery, and above all else overriding verbal artistry: truly in his own phrase, 'In the poetry of grammar'. The Sound Shape of Language, his collaboration with Linda R. Waugh, a scholar who has devoted considerable attention to an exposition and...
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English
ISBN
9681624890 / 9789681624897
Local notes
286 p. Exemplar nº 834