History of Linguistics Volume I: The Eastern Traditions of Linguistics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780582094895)

This comprehensive history of linguistics is part of a 5 volume set. Together, the volumes examine the social, cultural and religious functions of language, its place in education, the prestige attached to different varieties of language, and the presentation of lexical and grammatical descriptions. They explore the linguistic interests and assumptions of individual cultures in their own terms, without trying to transpose and reshape them into the context of contemporary ideas of what the scientific study of language ought to be. The authors of individual chapters are all specialists who have been able to analyse the primary sources, and so produce original syntheses which offer an authoritative view of the different traditions and periods.

Volime One examines the developments of Chinese linguistics, Indian grammatical tradition, the linguistic interests of the Near East, the Hebrew tradition, and the Arabic grammatical system of the Middle Ages.

Author: Giulio C. Lepschy
ISBN-10: 0582094895
ISBN-13: 9780582094895
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 06/27/1994
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.45h x 5.46w x 0.50d