Signs, science, and politics :: philosophies of language in Europe, 1700-1830 /

This book tells the story of how 18th-century European philosophy used Locke's theory of signs to build a natural history of speech and to investigate the semiotic tools with which nature and civil society can be controlled. The story ends at the point where this approach to language sciences w...

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1. Verfasser: Formigari, Lia, 1931-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Italian
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1993.
Schriftenreihe:Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Studies in the history of the language sciences ; v. 70.
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Zusammenfassung:This book tells the story of how 18th-century European philosophy used Locke's theory of signs to build a natural history of speech and to investigate the semiotic tools with which nature and civil society can be controlled. The story ends at the point where this approach to language sciences was called into question. Its epilogue is the description of the birth of an alternative between empiricism and idealism in late 18th- and early 19th-century theories of language. This alternative has given rise to such irreducible dichotomies as empirical linguistics vs. speculative linguistics, philosoph.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 218 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-210) and index.
ISBN:9789027276889
9027276889
128331293X
9781283312936
9786613312938
6613312932
ISSN:0304-0720 ;

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