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010 _a99015149
020 _a9780156007511
042 _apcc
050 0 0 _aP106
_b.E29 1999
082 0 0 _a401 ECO
100 1 _aEco, Umberto
_d(1932-2016)
240 1 0 _aEssays
_l. English
_k. Selections
245 1 0 _aSerendipities
_b: language & lunacy
_c/ Umberto Eco ; translated by William Weaver
250 _a1st Harvest ed
260 _aSan Diego
_b: Harcourt Brace
_c, 1999.
300 _aix, 129 p.
_c; 21 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [117]-119) and index.
520 _aEco, a best-selling novelist and a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna, unlocks the riddles of history in an exploration of the "linguistics of the lunatic," stories told by scholars, scientists, poets, fanatics, and ordinary people in order to make sense of the world.
650 0 _aLanguage and languages
650 0 _aIntercultural communication
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