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The language parallax : [electronic resource] linguistic relativism and poetic indeterminacy / by Paul Friedrich.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Texas linguistics seriesPublication details: Austin : University of Texas Press, 1986.Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 192 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0292746504 :
  • 9780292746503
  • 0292746512 (pbk.) :
  • 9780292746510 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306/.4 19
LOC classification:
  • P35 .F72 1986
Other classification:
  • 73.64
Online resources: Summary: Argues that the "locus and focus" of differences among languages lies not so much in practical or rational aspects as in the complexity and richness of more poetic dimensions--in the nuances of words, or the style and voice of an author. This poetic reformulation of what has been called "linguistic relativism" is grounded in the author's theory of the imagination as a main source of poetic indeterminacy and, ultimately, disorder and chaos.
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Bibliography: p. [161]-180.

Argues that the "locus and focus" of differences among languages lies not so much in practical or rational aspects as in the complexity and richness of more poetic dimensions--in the nuances of words, or the style and voice of an author. This poetic reformulation of what has been called "linguistic relativism" is grounded in the author's theory of the imagination as a main source of poetic indeterminacy and, ultimately, disorder and chaos.

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