Language, context, and the imagination essays - Friedrich, Paul 1927-; Dil, Anwar S. (Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Press, 1979)
The symbol: The symbol and its relative non-arbitrariness.--Symbol and context in time; Russia: Structural implications of Russian pronominal usage. Semantic structure and social structure; an instance from Russian. The linguistic reflex of social change; from tsarist to Soviet Russian kinship.--Proto-Indo-European: Proto-Indo-European kinship. Proto-Indo-European trees. The Proto-Indo-European goddess of dawn, Awsos.--Symbolic and contextual planes: Dialectical variation in Tarascan phonology. Shape categories in grammar. On the meaning of the Tarascan suffixes of space.--Language, poetic language, and the imagination: Metaphor-like relations between referential subsets. Speech as a personality symbol; the case of Achilles. Poetic language and the imagination; a reformulaton of the Sapir hypothesis.--Author's postscript.
"Bibliography of Paul Friedrich's works": p. [519]-523.
Includes bibliographies.
Keywords: Anthropological linguistics; Russian language -- Social aspects; Proto-Indo-European language; Poetry