The origin of language : aspects of the discussion from Condillac to Wundt / G.A. Wells.

Author
Wells, George Albert, 1926- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
La Salle, Ill. : Open Court, ©1987.
Description
viii, 138 pages ; 24 cm

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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.
      ISBN
      • 081269029X
      • 9780812690293
      • 0812690303
      • 9780812690309
      LCCN
      86005111
      OCLC
      13269220
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