The Social Use of Metaphor
Essays on the Anthropology of Rhetoric

J. David Sapir (Edited by), J. Christopher Crocker (Edited by)

9780812277258

Hardback, published 29 May 1977

249 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.564 kg

Through the use of language, as symbolic action, man attempts to control his social, natural, and supernatural environments. In this book J. David Sapir, J. Christopher Crocker, and their fellow contributors investigate the nature of metaphor and related symbolic forms as a means of coming to terms with the world.