... Burke was a poet, essayist, reviewer, novelist, translator, social commentator, and writer of short stories. His ever-fertile writings, collected in more than fifteen books, have made his name a byword in literary theory, history, economics, linguistics, dramaturgy, rhetoric, and much else. He was one of the founders a half ... circles as philosopher of language; he concentrated on the true meaning and significance of the deeper uses to which language may be put. Burke's many books including Attitudes Toward History, A grammar Of Motives, Language as Symbolic Action, On Symbols and Socie...

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