Kenneth Burke Quote

Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent it must function also as a deflection of reality,


Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method (ed. Univ of California Press, 1966)


Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent...

Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent...

Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent...

Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent...