“…All aspects of human life are perceived and organized through myths and systems of myth. Language is a similarly vital function of our existence. …”

“…An important intellectual accomplishment, Metaphor Reexamined yields original insights and supplies a mine of information for scholars in the philosophy of language, literary theory, semiotics, and linguistics…”

“…Albert Cook begins his investigation into the relationship of myth and language with a critique of Levi-Strauss. . . .Another section traces the redefinition of the relationship of myth and language from the oral Greek culture of Homer to the development of the discrete forms of lyric poetry, philosophy, and historiography. …”

“…Next Hailman puts together data from different disciplines in order to discover the "design characteristics" of optical signals. …”

“…She gives us detailed and brilliantly original analyses of Disillusionment, Vacillation, and Pursuit, the three novels which together form the great trilogy published under the title Eclipse. …”

“…Until that time, psycholinguistics, which developed severally from language-oriented research in psychology and from psychologically-oriented research with verbal behavior in linguistics, remained on the peripheries of the established disciplines. …”

“…Dauenhauer offers an original, comprehensive, and explicitly phenomenological analysis of silence in all its aspects. …”

“…In this volume the author presents a thoroughly considered critical and historical analysis of the theory of sensation as originated by Descartes, and concludes that the theory is basically wrong. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Historiography: Toward the origin of semiotic / Peirce's general theory of signs / Methodology: Semiotics: a discipline or an interdisciplinary method? …”

“…In an effort to avoid these twin scourges of modem philosophy, the author argues for the existence of ordinary perceptual objects and explains how we know these objects directly through simple acts of perception. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…From Hucbald to Guide : origins of the concept. Hucbald's De harmonica institutione ; Musica enchiriadis and Scolica enchiriadis ; Dialogus de musica ; Berno's Prologus in tonarium ; Micrologus and Epistola by Guido of Arezzo -- The eleventh and twelfth-century commentators : transposition and transformation. …”

“…The Great Po Sein is a look into Burmese theater leading up to the time of publication in 1965, originally described in on its cover flaps as follows: "This delightful volume presents a vivid account of the development of the theater in Burma over the last eighty years .... …”

“…The published sources on which this study was based have all been indicated in the notes, and the reader is advised to consult that original material whenever he requires additional technical or factual information…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The ordered society : The order of reverence ; The utility of the reverential order ; The ordered society and the biological species ; Ordered relations vs. social relations ; The decay of reverence and the dawn of morality. -- VII. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Polity and history -- Historicity -- Mythscapes -- Tribal ranking and monarchic succession -- Birth order and maternal heritage -- Names, blessings, rank, and social structure -- Intersecting alliances of the Levites -- Territory, kingship, and social structure -- III. …”

“…Based on a series of lectures given at Indiana University in 1964, The Linguistic School of Prague discusses the famed Prague Linguistic Circle and its work. The book was originally described on its original 1966 cover flap as follows: "In this volume ... …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Subjectivism and individualism in modern Chinese literature -- Introduction to Studies in modern Chinese literature -- A confrontation of traditional Oriental literature with modern European literature in the context of the Chinese literary revolution -- Reality and art in Chinese literature -- Lu Hsün's "Huai chiu": a precursor of modern Chinese literature -- The changing role of the narrator in Chinese novels at the beginning of the twentieth century -- Mao Tun and Yü Ta-fu (from Three sketches of Chinese literature) -- Yeh Shao-chün and Anton Chekhov -- Basic problems of the history of modern Chinese literature and C.T. …”

“…This original and fully documented study finds that the trend in film making in the Western world is to international coproduction. …”

“…Here, in the twelfth century, the popularity of Islamic songs of the neighboring Hispano-Mauresque civilization contributed to the development of a poetry which "answered the mood of a feudal society newly awakened to its native uncouthness by contact with the luxury of the Orient." Briffault clearly establishes that the largely non-Western idiom of the troubadours soon dominated the language of European poetry. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Osgood -- Human communicative behavior : a biological model / William Orr Dingwall -- Semantics and pragmatics of sentence connectives in natural language / Roland Posner -- The bridge between semantics and pragmatics / William P. …”