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Text and Context 1976 1 | 1 |
On Difficulty 1978 | 18 |
Language and Psychoanalysis 1976 | 48 |
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| Title | On difficulty, and other essays Oxford paperbacks |
| Author | George Steiner |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1980 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Feb 11, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0192813145, 9780192813145 |
| Length | 209 pages |
| Subjects | › Discourse analysis Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics Language Arts & Disciplines / Semantics Literary Collections / Essays Philology, Modern Psycholinguistics |
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