The Meaning of Meaning: A Study of the Influence of Language Upon Thought and of the Science of Symbolism

2013 Reprint of 1927 American Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Revised second edition of this classic text. Although the original text was published in 1923 it has been used as a textbook in many fields including linguistics, philosophy, language, cognitive science and most recently semantics and semiotics in general. The book has been in print continuously since 1923. Richards sets forth a contextual theory of Signs: that Words and Things are connected through their occurrence together with things. The book would later influence A.J. Ayer's Language, Truth and Logic,, and both the Richards-Ogden book and the Ayer book would, in turn, influence Alec King and Martin Ketley in the writing of their book The Control of Language, which appeared in 1939. This book would in turn influence C.S. Lewis in the writing of his defense of natural law and objective values, The Abolition of Man (1943). It is accompanied by the two supplementary essays by Bronislaw Malinowski and F. G. Crookshank.