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Darwinism and the Linguistic Image
Language, Race, and Natural Theology in the Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 2003
438 kr
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In the nineteenth century, philology-especially comparative philology-made impressive gains as a discipline, thus laying the foundation for the modern field of linguistics. In Darwinism and the Linguistic Image, Stephen G. Alter examines how comparative philology provided a genealogical model of …
William Dwight Whitney and the Science of Language
Inbunden, 2005
604 kr
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Linguistics, or the science of language, emerged as an independent field of study in the nineteenth century, amid the religious and scientific ferment of the Victorian era. William Dwight Whitney, one of that period's most eminent language scholars, argued that his field should be classed among the …