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Buch, Englisch, 96 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 178 mm, Gewicht: 1000 g

Moro

I Speak, Therefore I Am - Seventeen Thoughts About Language


Buch, Englisch, 96 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 178 mm, Gewicht: 1000 g

ISBN: 978-0-231-17740-5
Verlag: Columbia University Press

And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. Genesis 2:19

Language is more like a snowflake than a giraffe's neck. Its specific properties are determined by laws of nature, they have not developed through the accumulation of historical accidents. Noam Chomsky

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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Moro, Andrea

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Preface: Choice, Then Order, Then Chance, Finally Only Light1. God2. Plato3. Aristotle4. Marcus Terentius Varro5. Roger Bacon6. Descartes7. Antoine Arnauld and Claude Lancelot8. Sir William Jones9. Hermann Osthoff and E. Karl Brugmann10. Ferdinand de Saussure11. Bertrand Russell12. Martin Joos13. Roman Jakobson14. Joseph Greenberg15. Eric H. Lenneberg16. Niels Jerne17. Noam ChomskyFinalePostscriptAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliography

Andrea C. Moro is professor of general linguistics at the Scuola Universitaria Superiore in Pavia, Italy. His work has been published in Nature Neuroscience, Linguistic Inquiry, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and his books include The Raising of Predicates, Dynamic Antisymmetry, The Equilibrium of Human Syntax, The Boundaries of Babel, and Impossible Languages.

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