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I speak, therefore I am: seventeen thoughts about language

By Ian , Moro , Andrea;Roberts

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780231177405, 0231177402, 9780231177412, 0231177410
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
563 kB (576881 bytes)
Pages
x, 84 pages ; 16 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Language and languages--Philosophy;Language and la

Description

In I Speak, Therefore I Am, the Italian linguist and neuroscientist Andrea C. Moro composes an album of his favorite quotations from the history of philosophy, 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 snapshots and his commentary on them constitute an album that displays the humanness of language: our need to name, to contain, and to translate the world in order 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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