Research Catalog

Title

Voyage into language : space and the linguistic encounter, 1500-1800 / David B. Paxman.

Author

Paxman, David B., 1946-

Publication

Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT. : Ashgate, ©2003.

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Details

Description

ix, 273 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"In this new study, author David B. Paxman demonstrates that ordinary spatial concepts, together with the changing sense of the earth's space brought about by exploration, navigation, and mapping, exerted a strong influence on linguistic thought. Paxman illuminates how our thinking about language as a whole, as well as our exploration of languages, developed in ways parallel to our thinking about and exploration of the space we live in, our planet." "While Voyage into Language does contribute to the history of linguistics, more broadly it is a treatment of intellectual and cultural history, and an application of cognitive science to language study of the past. As such, it holds appeal for historians and literary scholars as well as linguists."--Jacket.

Subject

• Space and time in language > History
• Language and languages > Philosophy
• Space and time in language
• Kolonialismus
• Raumvorstellung
• Reise
• Sprachphilosophie
• Sprachtheorie
• Taalwetenschap

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-266) and index.

Contents

Space and Language: Language in Space -- Mapping Language -- Language Barriers -- Containing Language: What Language Contains -- Philosophical Grammar, or Language and World in Stasis -- Rhetoric and the Expanding World -- Locke and After: Language as the Mind's Space -- Language as the Journey of the Human Mind: Typology, National Culture, and the Role of the Linguist.

ISBN

• 075460697X
• 9780754606970

LCCN

2002036808

OCLC

• ocm50840980
• 50840980
• SCSB-1326269

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library