Learning from Language

This book seeks to bring together the disciplines of linguistics, rhetoric, and literary studies through the concept of symmetry (how words mirror thought, society, and our vision of the world).

About the author

Walter H. Beale is professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the author of A Pragmatic Theory of Rhetoric; Real Writing: Argumentation, Reflection, Information; and other studies in the fields of language and rhetoric.

Summary

This book seeks to bring together the disciplines of linguistics, rhetoric, and literary studies through the concept of symmetry (how words mirror thought, society, and our vision of the world). Honorable Mention, 2009 MLA Mina P. Shaughnessy Award

Product details

• Authors: Walter Beale, Walter H Beale, Walter H. Beale
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.07.2009
• EAN: 9780822960386
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6038-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 224 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 295 g
• Series: Pittsburgh Series in Compositi; Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture; Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture; Composition, Literacy, and Cul; Composition, Literacy, and Culture; Pittsburgh Series in Compositi
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics