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Language and literature in society; a sociological essay on theory and method in the interpretation of linguistic symbols, with a bibliographical guide to the sociology of literature.

Author: Hugh Dalziel Duncan
Publisher: [Chicago] University of Chicago Press [1953]
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Duncan, Hugh Dalziel.
Language and literature in society.
[Chicago] University of Chicago Press [1953]
(OCoLC)573523190
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Hugh Dalziel Duncan
OCLC Number: 2063499
Description: xv, 262 p. 24 cm.
Contents: pt. 1. Language and literature in society: Literature as great art --
Literature as magical art --
Literature as make-believe --
Literature as a social institution --
pt. 2. Methodological problems in the sociological analysis of symbolic material: The approaches of social science to the analysis of symbolic material --
Literature as equipment for action: Burke's dramatic conception --
Symbolic action as common ground for all action --
pt. 3. A specific sociological view of symbols: status and symbols: Persuasion and identification in rhetoric --
Symbols and authority --
Hierarchy and symbols in democratic society --
pt. 4. General bibliography: General bibliography.

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Pt. 1. Language and literature in society
I. Literature as great art 3
II. Literature as magical art 20
III. Literature as make-believe 42
IV. Literature as a social institution 58

Pt. 2. Methodological problems in the sociological analysis of symbolic material
V. The approaches of social science to the analysis of symbolic material 77
VI. Literature as equipment for action: Burke's dramatic conception 84
VII. Symbolic action as common ground for all action 93

Pt. 3. A specific sociological view of symbols: status and symbols
VIII. Persuasion and identification in rhetoric 103
IX. Symbols and authority 112
X. Hierarchy and symbols in democratic society 129

Pt. 4. General bibliography
General bibliography 143

Notes 217
Index 247

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