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The origin of language : aspects of the discussion from Condillac to Wundt / G.A. Wells.
Author
Wells, George Albert, 1926-
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English
Published/Created
La Salle, Ill. : Open Court, ©1987.
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viii, 138 pages ; 24 cm
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Forrestal Annex - A
P118 .W44 1987
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Language and languages
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Origin
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Language and languages
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Philosophy
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Notes
Includes index.
Bibliographic references
Bibliography: p. [127]-132.
Contents
Introduction: Language an Invention?
The Enlightenment Investigators and Their Followers
Condillac and Rousseau
Thomas Reid
Monboddo
Nineteenth-Century Followers of the Enlightenment Tradition
Herder
Nineteenth-Century Resistance to the Idea that Language is an Invention
Sanskrit and The Sound Shifts
Philology as a Science: Max Muller and Schleicher
The Relation of Language to Thought
Humboldt, Schleicher, and Max Muller
Geiger
Steinthal and 'Apperception'
Reason and the Reasoning Process
Alternatives to Invention
Humboldt and Some of his Commentators
Geiger and Wundt.
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ISBN
081269029X
9780812690293
0812690303
9780812690309
LCCN
86005111
OCLC
13269220
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