Language and Linguistics

Key Nineteenth-Century Journal Sources in Linguistics

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1736 Seiten

1995
Routledge
9780415122061 (ISBN)

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Topics included in this set of particular importance are those on the origin of speech, the validity of the Biblical account of language, the identity and nature of the language Adam spoke, and the relation between language and thought.

In the nineteenth century, linguistics had not yet become the highly technical subject which it was to be in the following century. Debates on linguistic issues could still be followed by non-specialists and discussed in terms accessible to the educated public. This public in turn did not hesitate to make up its own mind about the questions put before it by linguists. Hence it is not surprising to find general periodicals devoting considerably more attention to language, particularly in the latter half of the period, than has probably ever been the case before or since.

Topics of particular importance included those bearing on religious beliefs and the new evolutionary views of Darwin: the origin of speech, the validity of the Biblical account of language, the identity and nature of the language Adam spoke, and the relation between language and thought.

As one would also expect in the period which saw the compilation of the monumental New English Dictionary, questions relating to the history and teaching of the English language were of considerable interest, especially since the educational reforms of the period led eventually to a situation in which English was a compulsory subject in every school in Britain.

Contributors represented here include Max Muller, W.D. Whitney, A.H. Sayce, E.B. Tylor, Thomas De Quincey, Charles Kingsley and William Hazlitt.

Selected and Compiled by Roy Harris

English Language and Language Teaching [1800-1865]Various contributors 400pp
English Language and Language Teaching [1865-1900]Various contributors 400pp
Language and Linguistic Theory [1800-1865]Various contributors 400pp
Language and Linguistic Theory [1865-1900]Various contributors 400pp
Full list of contents available from: Frances Lester, Routledge, 11 New Fetter Lane, London, EC4P 4EE.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.9.1995
Reihe/Serie	The Wellesley Series
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	4241 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9780415122061 / 9780415122061
Zustand	Neuware