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  1. The language parallax
    linguistic relativism and poetic indeterminacy
    Published: 1986
    Publisher:  Univ. of Texas Press, Austin

    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... more

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    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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  2. The language parallax
    linguistic relativism and poetic indeterminacy
    Published: 1986
    Publisher:  Univ. of Texas Press, Austin

    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... more

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    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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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0292746504; 0292746512
    RVK Categories: ER 630
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Series: Texas linguistics series
    Subjects: Langage et langues - Philosophie; Langues - Philosophie; Lenguas - Filosofía; Poésie; Poésie; Relativisme; Sapir-Whorf, Hypothèse de; Taalfilosofie; Philosophie; Sprache; Language and languages; Poetry; Sapir-Whorf hypothesis; Dichtersprache; Literatur; Unschärfe; Sapir-Whorf-Hypothese
    Scope: XII, 192 S.