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BASIL H. PILLARD
Basil H. Pillard (dates unknown) earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1917. He then worked as a copywriter and account executive at a string of advertising agencies in New York City. In 1928 he joined the faculty of Antioch College, the small liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Pillard started out as a professor of business administration, then joined the faculty of the English Department, and finally became Dean of Students.
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Creator: Hayakawa, S. I. (Samuel Ichiye´), 1906-1992
Pillard, Basil H. (consultant)
Title: Language in Thought and Action
Description: title page
Imprint: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949
Item Date: 1949
Material Type: Monographs
ADA Caption: Language in Thought and Action
Curatorial Department: Book Collection
Collection Name: Rare Books Collection
Stack Location: PE 1585 H36
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The title page and foreword of S. I. Hayakawa's Language in Thought and Action (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949).
This volume is an account of Hayakawa's own investigations into semantic theory. In this new edition of Hayakawa's1941 book, Language in Action, Pillard is credited as a consultant whose contributions were based on his own application of semantics to his teaching practice.