Speaking and Language

Speaking and Language

First edition
Author	Paul Goodman
Subject	Social criticism
Published	January 1972 (Random House)
Pages	242

Speaking and Language: Defence of Poetry is a book of criticism by Paul Goodman that blames academic, structured approaches to linguistics for diminishing the role of creativity and spontaneity in speaking and human nature.

Publication

The author, c. 1969

Random House first published the book's hardcover cloth edition in January 1972, though the official publication date had listed November 1971. A paperback edition by Vintage Books followed in August 1972. Speaking and Language released in the United Kingdom in 1973.

Further reading

• Barnard, Roger (February 1, 1973). "Goodman Observed". New Society. Vol. 23, no. 539. pp. 251–252. ISSN 0028-6729. ProQuest 1307085609.
• Borklund, Elmer (1977). "Paul Goodman". Contemporary Literary Critics. Contemporary Writers of the English Language. New York: St. Martin's Press. pp. 226–231. ISBN 978-0-333-22667-4.
• Butterfield, Herbie (July 27, 1973). "The Conservative Anarchist (Rev. of Speaking and Language)". The Times Literary Supplement (3725): 874. ISSN 0307-661X.
• Chapman, Robert L. (January 15, 1972). "Rev. of Speaking and Language". The Saturday Review. Vol. 55. pp. 44–45. ISSN 0036-4983.
• D., C. (June 10, 1973). "Guardian of Language". The Observer. London. p. 36. ISSN 0029-7712 – via ProQuest.
• Green, Martin (January 25, 1973). "The Liberation Man". The Guardian. London. p. 11. ISSN 0261-3077 – via ProQuest.
• Letwin, Shirley Robin (March 3, 1973). "Shirley Robin Letwin on the hero of the Beat Generation (Book Review)". The Spectator. Vol. 230, no. 7549. pp. 266–267. ISSN 0038-6952 – via ProQuest.
• Lipsius, Frank (May 1973). "Rev. of Speaking and Language". Books and Bookmen. 18: 58–59. ISSN 0006-744X – via Book Review Index.
• Merideth, Robert (April 3, 1972). "Venus Will Now Say a Few Words (Rev. of Speaking and Language)". The Nation. 214 (14): 437. ISSN 0027-8378.
• Nicely, Tom (1979). "906 Speaking and Language". Adam and His Work: A Bibliography of Sources by and about Paul Goodman (1911–1972). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. pp. 155–156. ISBN 978-0-8108-1219-2. OCLC 4832535.
• Said, Edward W. (February 20, 1972). "A Good Man against Theories (Rev. of Speaking and Language by Paul Goodman)". The New York Times. p. BR21. ISSN 0362-4331.
• "Rev. of Speaking and Language". New Leader. 55: 15–. January 10, 1972. ISSN 0028-6044 – via Book Review Index.
• "Rev. of Speaking and Language". National Review. Vol. 24. March 17, 1972. pp. 290–. ISSN 0028-0038 – via Book Review Index.
• True, Michael (1975). "The New Poetics: Giggling into Paradise". CrossCurrents. 24 (4): 521–524. ISSN 0011-1953. JSTOR 24457909.

External links

• Full text at the Internet Archive