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Through the use of language, as symbolic action, man attempts to control his social, natural, and supernatural environments. In this book J. David Sapir, J. Christopher Crocker, and their fellow contributors investigate the nature of metaphor and related symbolic forms as a means of coming to terms with the world.

The Social Use of Metaphor: Essays on the Anthropology of Rhetoric

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    Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
    Publication Date: 29/05/1977
    ISBN13: 9780812277258, 978-0812277258
    ISBN10: 0812277252

    Number of Pages: 249

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

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    Through the use of language, as symbolic action, man attempts to control his social, natural, and supernatural environments. In this book J. David Sapir, J. Christopher Crocker, and their fellow contributors investigate the nature of metaphor and related symbolic forms as a means of coming to terms with the world.

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