History of Linguistics Volume I by Giulio C Lepschy

History of Linguistics Volume I by 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.

Giulio Lepschy is Emeritus Professor at the University of Reading and Honorary Professor at University College London's Department of Italian.

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ISBN 13	9780582094895
ISBN 10	0582094895
Title	History of Linguistics Volume I
Author	Giulio C Lepschy
Series	Longman Linguistics Library
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Routledge
Year published	1994-06-27
Number of pages	224
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