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History of Linguistics Volume I: The Eastern Traditions of Linguistics - Longman Linguistics Library Giulio C. Lepschy 1st edition
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History of Linguistics Volume I: The Eastern Traditions of Linguistics - Longman Linguistics Library
Giulio C. Lepschy
This comprehensive history of linguistics is part of a 5 volume set. Together, the volumes examine the social, cultural and religious functions of language, its place in education, the prestige attached to different varieties of language, and the presentation of lexical and grammatical descriptions. They explore the linguistic interests and assumptions of individual cultures in their own terms, without trying to transpose and reshape them into the context of contemporary ideas of what the scientific study of language ought to be. The authors of individual chapters are all specialists who have been able to analyse the primary sources, and so produce original syntheses which offer an authoritative view of the different traditions and periods.
Volime One examines the developments of Chinese linguistics, Indian grammatical tradition, the linguistic interests of the Near East, the Hebrew tradition, and the Arabic grammatical system of the Middle Ages.
224 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | February 27, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138158832 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 224 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 453 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Lepschy, Giulio C. |
