From the ForewordThese pieces are selections from work done in the
Thirties, a decade so changeable that I at first thought of
assembling them under the title, "While Everything Flows." Their
primary interest is in speculation on the nature of linguistic, or
symbolic, or literary action--and in a search for more precise ways
of locating or defining such action. Words are aspects of a much
wider communicative context, most of which is not verbal at all.
Yet words also have a nature peculiarly their own. And when
discussing them as modes of action, we must consider both this
nature as words in themselves and the nature they get from the
non-verbal scenes that support their acts. I shall be happy if the
reader can say of this book that, while always considering words as
acts upon a scene, it avoids the excess of environmentalist schools
which are usually so eager to trace the relationships between act
and scene that they neglect to trace the structure of the act
itself.
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