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In this thoroughly revised, updated edition of his classic “Language in Thought and Action, ” S.I. Hayakawa discusses the role of language in human life, the many functions of language, and how language – sometimes without our knowing – shapes our thinking. The author writes provocatively about the relationship between language and racial and religious prejudice; about the nature and dangers of advertising, from a linguistic point of view; and, in a completely new chapter called “The Empty Eye, ” about the content, form, and hidden message of television, from situation comedies to news coverage to political advertising.
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