Language Impact : Evolution -- System -- Discourse.
Title:
Language Impact : Evolution -- System -- Discourse.
Author:
Fill, Alwin Frank.
ISBN:
9781845539597
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (274 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- PART II -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- PART III -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16 -- Chapter 17 -- Chapter 18 -- Chapter 19 -- Chapter 20 -- Chapter 21 -- Summary: Expansion and Limitation -- References -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Appendix III -- Index.
Abstract:
This book is a long overdue survey of all the effects of language on the three levels of evolution, system and discourse - and of what thinkers have written about them. From Plato's critique of Sophistry to Bacon's idola fori, Humboldt's 'language is energy', and finally Wittgenstein's 'language games' - the 21 chapters of the book deal critically with the power of language and what philosophers have said about it. A glossary of terms and an annotated list of thinkers make this book easy to use.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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