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99 Post author: lukeprog 15 September 2012 12:32AM

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Comment author: lukeprog 15 September 2012 09:16:00PM *  5 points [-]

Hayakawa's Language In Thought and Action

...is not what I'd call "mainstream academia." Its program of "general semantics" is instead what Martin Gardner labeled as "cultism and pseudo-science" in one chapter of Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science. Despite this, Language in Thought and Action is pretty good.