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I Speak, Therefore I Am - Seventeen Thoughts About Language (Hardcover)
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I Speak, Therefore I Am - Seventeen Thoughts About Language (Hardcover)
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There are no men so dull and stupid, not even idiots, as to be
incapable of joining together different words, and thereby
constructing a declaration by which to make their thoughts
understood...On the other hand, there is no other animal, however
perfect or happily circumstanced which can do the like.-Descartes
Language is more like a snowflake than a giraffe's neck. Its
specific properties are determined by laws of nature, they have not
developed through the accumulation of historical accidents.-Noam
Chomsky In I Speak, Therefore I Am, the Italian linguist and
neuroscientist Andrea Moro composes an album of his favorite
quotations from the history of linguistics, beginning with the Book
of Genesis and the power of naming and concluding with Noam
Chomsky's metaphor that language is a snowflake. Moro's seventeen
linguistic thoughts and his commentary on them display the
humanness of language: our need to name and interpret this world
and create imaginary ones, to express and understand ourselves.
This book is sure to delight anyone who enjoys the ineffable
paradox that is human language.
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