0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics

Buy Now

The Language Myth in Western Culture (Hardcover, illustrated edition) Loot Price: R4,479
Discovery Miles 44 790
The Language Myth in Western Culture (Hardcover, illustrated edition): Roy Harris

The Language Myth in Western Culture (Hardcover, illustrated edition)

Roy Harris

Series: Routledge Advances in Communication and Linguistic Theory

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R4,479 Discovery Miles 44 790 | Repayment Terms: R420 pm x 12*

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 12 - 19 working days


The basic claim of this book is that for 2000 years and more the western tradition has relied on two very dubious assumptions about human communication: that each national language is a unique code and that linguistic communication consists in the utilization of such codes to transfer messages from mind to mind.

General

Imprint: RoutledgeCurzon
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Routledge Advances in Communication and Linguistic Theory
Release date: December 2001
First published: 2002
Editors: Roy Harris
Dimensions: 216 x 138 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 228
Edition: illustrated edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-7007-1453-7
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sociolinguistics
Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > General
Promotions
LSN: 0-7007-1453-7
Barcode: 9780700714537

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics
Yan Huang Hardcover R4,819 Discovery Miles 48 190
Aspects of Split Ergativity
Jessica Coon Hardcover R4,083 Discovery Miles 40 830
RLE: Japan Mini-Set E: Sociology…
Various Hardcover R30,509 Discovery Miles 305 090
RLE: Japan Mini-Set D: Politics (POD) (8…
Various Hardcover R24,480 Discovery Miles 244 800
Locality
Enoch Olade Aboh, Maria Teresa Guasti, … Hardcover R3,994 Discovery Miles 39 940
The History of Languages - An…
Tore Janson Hardcover R3,376 Discovery Miles 33 760
Micro-Syntactic Variation in North…
Raffaella Zanuttini, Laurence Horn Hardcover R4,096 Discovery Miles 40 960
Japanese Syntax in Comparative…
Mamoru Saito Hardcover R4,090 Discovery Miles 40 900
Well I Never Knew That! - Do Spies Win…
Peter Ryding Hardcover  (2)
R318 Discovery Miles 3 180
DICTIONNAIRE D'ARABE DIALECTAL TUNISIEN
Louis Bardou Paperback R587 Discovery Miles 5 870
Well I Never Knew That! - Who Put the…
Peter Ryding Hardcover  (2)
R323 Discovery Miles 3 230
Well I Never Knew That! Did Noah Invent…
Peter Ryding Hardcover R314 Discovery Miles 3 140

See more

Partners