Language the Unknown / An Initiation into Linguistics
Language the Unknown / An Initiation into Linguistics
- Columbia University Press, 1989
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The writer in this book presents the evolution and emergence of linguistics as a human science. Introduction to Linguistics, Language and Speech and Discourse, The Linguistic Sign, The Materiality of Language, Phonetics, The Graphic and the Gestural, Linguistic Categories and Relations, Language in History, Anthropology and Linguistics: The Knowledge of Language in So-Called Primitive Societies, The Egyptians: Their Writing, Mesopotamian Civilization: The Sumerians and Akkadians, China: Writing as Science, Indian Linguistics, The Phoenician Alphabet, The Hebrews: The Bible and the Cabala, Logical Greece, Rome: The Transmission of Greek Grammar, Arab Grammar, Medieval Speculations, Humanists and Grammarians of the Reinaissance, The Grammar of Port Royal, Language as History, Structural Linguistics, Language and Languages, Psychoanalysis and Language, The Practice of Language, Semiotics, Conclusion, Notes, Index.
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The writer in this book presents the evolution and emergence of linguistics as a human science. Introduction to Linguistics, Language and Speech and Discourse, The Linguistic Sign, The Materiality of Language, Phonetics, The Graphic and the Gestural, Linguistic Categories and Relations, Language in History, Anthropology and Linguistics: The Knowledge of Language in So-Called Primitive Societies, The Egyptians: Their Writing, Mesopotamian Civilization: The Sumerians and Akkadians, China: Writing as Science, Indian Linguistics, The Phoenician Alphabet, The Hebrews: The Bible and the Cabala, Logical Greece, Rome: The Transmission of Greek Grammar, Arab Grammar, Medieval Speculations, Humanists and Grammarians of the Reinaissance, The Grammar of Port Royal, Language as History, Structural Linguistics, Language and Languages, Psychoanalysis and Language, The Practice of Language, Semiotics, Conclusion, Notes, Index.
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