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Learning from Language (Pitt Comp Literacy Culture)
Walter Beale
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Description for Learning from Language (Pitt Comp Literacy Culture)
Paperback. Intends 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). This title provides a study of linguistic theory, development, and practice. Series: Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture. Num Pages: 240 pages, figures. BIC Classification: CFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
In Learning from Language, Walter H. Beale 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).
Citing thinkers from antiquity to the present, Beale provides an in-depth study of linguistic theory, development, and practice. He views the historic division between the schools of symmetry and asymmetry (a belief that language developed as a structure independent of human experience), as built into the character of language itself, and as an impediment to literary humanism (the combined study of language, rhetoric, and ... Read more
In Learning from Language, Walter H. Beale 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).
Citing thinkers from antiquity to the present, Beale provides an in-depth study of linguistic theory, development, and practice. He views the historic division between the schools of symmetry and asymmetry (a belief that language developed as a structure independent of human experience), as built into the character of language itself, and as an impediment to literary humanism (the combined study of language, rhetoric, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Condition
New
Series
Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh PA, United States
ISBN
9780822960386
SKU
V9780822960386
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About Walter Beale
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.
Reviews for Learning from Language (Pitt Comp Literacy Culture)
A fresh history of English studies. Learning from Language explores central theories in the study of language, from rhetoric to discourse analysis to speech act performance. It provides a sense of how and why different questions on the nature of language have flowered into various intellectual traditions. - Ellen Cushman, Michigan State University