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Origin of Language: Aspects of the Discussion from Condillac to Wundt First edition
G.A. Wells
Origin of Language: Aspects of the Discussion from Condillac to Wundt First edition
G.A. Wells
from back cover: Does the use of language by humans point to a mysterious and unbridgeable chasm between man and best? Is human language a human invention? How could language possibly have been invented, since the inventor would have had to use language in order to explain the invention to others?
Writers of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment-especially Condillac, Thomas Reid, and Monboddo-developed a naturalistic conjectural account of teh invention of language. But Herder and his successors, from Humboldt to Wundt, were determined to reject any theory which characterized language as an invention. Ninetheenth-and twentieth-century thinking has generally followed Herder, and it has become fashionable to scoff at the naivety of the Enlightened writers.
In this short but tightly-packed work, G. A. Wells gives a lucid account of the arguments of Condillac, Reid, and Mnboddo, showing that their theories, often carelessly misrepresented, are much more persuasive than has been supposed.
148 pages
Mídia | Livros Paperback Book (Livro de capa flexível e brochura) |
Lançado | 1 de agosto de 1987 |
ISBN13 | 9780812690309 |
Editoras | Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S. |
Páginas | 148 |
Dimensões | 154 × 230 × 14 mm · 240 g |
Idioma | English |
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