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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Italiano |
| Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins,
1993.
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| Colección: | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Studies in the history of the language sciences ;
v. 70. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 218 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-210) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027276889 9027276889 128331293X 9781283312936 9786613312938 6613312932 |
| ISSN: | 0304-0720 ; |