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  Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman (Paperback) By (author) George Steiner

  

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  Short Description for Language and SilenceHow do we evaluate the power and utility of language when it has been manipulated to circumvent the truth at high levels or charged with vulgarity and imprecision by mass-consumer culture? How can fractured language adapt to the demands of more exact speech required by mathematics and symbolic notation? These are some of the questions addressed in this elegantly written book, first published in 19
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  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Published: 18 December 1998
  • Format: Paperback 440 pages
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  • Categories: Prose: Non-fiction | Literary Essays | Literary Theory
  • ISBN 13: 9780300074710 ISBN 10: 0300074719
  • Sales rank: 563,548

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• How do we evaluate the power and utility of language when it has been made to articulate falsehoods in certain totalitarian regimes or has been charged with vulgarity and imprecision in a mass-consumer democracy? How will language react to the increasingly urgent claims of more exact speech such as mathematics and symbolic notation? These are some of the questions Steiner addresses in this elegantly written book, first published in 1967 to international acclaim.