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Author Paxman, David B

Title Voyage into Language : Space and the Linguistic Encounter, 1500-1800
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (284 pages)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Space and Language: Language in Space -- 2 Mapping Language -- 3 Language Barriers -- 4 Containing Language: What Language Contains -- 5 Philosophical Grammar, or Language and World in Stasis -- 6 Rhetoric and the Expanding World -- 7 Locke and After: Language as the Mind's Space -- 8 Language as the Journey of the Human Mind: Typology, National Culture, and the Role of the Linguist -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
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Subject Space and time in language -- History
Language and languages -- Philosophy.
Language and languages -- Philosophy
Space and time in language
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351874151
1351874152