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Origin Of Language (Hardcover)
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Origin Of Language (Hardcover)
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The "Key Issues" series makes available some of the contemporary
responses that met important books and debates on their first
appearance. Examining the range of contemporary literature -
journal articles, book extracts, public letters, sermons and
pamphlets - the series should give the reader an insight into the
historical, social and political context in which a key publication
or particular topic emerged. Each text has been reset and provided
with a new editorial introduction to supply the necessary
historical background. Public debate about language in the
English-speaking world during the 19th century turned on the issue
of how language began. The notion that language was a divine gift
to humanity, not shared by lower creatures, was supported by the
Biblical accounts of Adam naming the animals and of the Tower of
Babel. It was still accepted by leading religious authorities. But
this notion was seriously brought into question by the publication
of Darwin's theory of evolution. Those who rejected Darwinism
ridiculed all attempts to conjure up language out of primitive
calls, grunts and ejaculations. No animals, it was pointed out, had
yet achieved communication remotely resembling the use of words. On
the other side were those who held that it was possible to account
for the birth of language rationally as a function of the
development of human communicational needs in society. Prominent
contributors to the controversy included Max Muller (1823-1900),
who held the Chair of Comparative Philology at Oxford University,
William Dwight Whitney (1837-1894), Professor of Sanskrit at Yale
University, USA, and Edward Burnett Tylor (1832-1917), who became
Oxford's first Professor of Anthropology in 1895.
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