ISBN:
9780700714537
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (228 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in Communication and Linguistic Theory v.v. 2
Parallel Title:
Print version The Language Myth in Western Culture
DDC:
302.2
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The basic claim of this book is that for 2000 years and more the western tradition has relied on two very dubious assumptions about human communication: that each national language is a unique code and that linguistic communication consists in the utilization of such codes to transfer messages from mind to mind
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1. The Role of the Language Myth in the Western Cultural Tradition; 2. The Language Myth and Historical Linguistics; 3. The Language Myth and Standard English; 4. The Language Myth and Linguistics Humanised; 5. The Mythical, the Non-mythical and Representation in Linguistics; 6. Folk Psychology and the Language Myth: What Would the Integrationist Say?; 7. The Language Myth and the Race Myth: Evil Twins of Modern Identity Politics?; 8. The Language Myth and Mathematical Notation as a Language of Nature
Description / Table of Contents:
9. The Language Myth and the Law10. The Language Myth and Western Art; 11. The Language Myth, Schopenhauer and Music; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
