Alan R Hayakawa / S I Hayakawa
In this thoroughly revised, updated edition of his classic 'Language in Thought and Action, ' S.I. Hayakawa discusses the role of language in human life, the many functions of language, and how language - sometimes without our knowing - shapes our thinking. The author writes provocatively about the relationship between language and racial and religious prejudice; about the nature and dangers of advertising, from a linguistic point of view; and, in a completely new chapter called 'The Empty Eye, ' about the content, form, and hidden message of television, from situation comedies to news coverage to political advertising.