S. I. Hayakawa’s “Language in Thought and Action” is one of those weighty tomes that get me all excited. While it’s certainly not weighty, physically (at less than 200 pages) it’s a cerebral adventure that gives me palpitations and makes me want to go teach its concepts.
Which, in fact, is what all my books are: a driving need to take the complex concepts which thrill me, and make them available to people who are less inclined to rummage through a deep book, dictionary at hand, and figure out what on earth the author is saying.
No worries; I’ll translate.
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If this is a book that gets you intellectually excited, it’s next on my ‘must read’ list!!
Thanks for sharing!
Posted 13 Oct 2009 at 6:21 pm ¶I loaned my Hayakawa to Jerry, and had to make him give it back before he was done ’cause I just had to start reading it again. I open to any page, and somehow, it’s an emotional experience, seeing Hayakawa’s deep instinctive grasp of language, words, silence, meaning.
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