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The message in the bottle

how queer man is, how queer language is, and what one has to do with the other

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An edition of The message in the bottle (1975)

The message in the bottle

how queer man is, how queer language is, and what one has to do with the other

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Walker Percy, a Catholic, a physician, a man bent to philosophy, became interested in semiotics, the field which studies the meaning of language when he involved himself in teaching his congenitally deaf daughter to speak. In the process he discovered that to understand man (or man the wayfarer as he called us) one should start with understanding language, that singularly unique attribute of man. This book is about what he discovered along the way and is totally fascinating. The reader will learn little about the highly technical field of semiotics, but will see human nature clearly. It is worth the read.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
English
Pages
335

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Subjects
Language and culture, Sociolinguistics

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Cover of: The message in the bottle
The message in the bottle: how queer man is, how queer language is, and what one has to do with the other
2000, Picador USA, Distributed by St. Martin's Press
in English - 1st Picador USA ed.
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Message in the Bottle
June 1984, Farrar Straus Giroux
in English
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Cover of: The message in the bottle
The message in the bottle: how queer man is, how queer language is, and what one has to do with the other
1975, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
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Bibliography: p. [331]-335.

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Dewey Decimal Class
814/.5/4
Library of Congress
PS3566.E6912 M4

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Pagination
x, 335 p. ;
Number of pages
335

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OL5186648M
Internet Archive
messageinbottleh00perc
ISBN 10
0374208565
LCCN
75005846
Library Thing
118136
Goodreads
1180635

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