Название: The Loom of Language
Автор: Frederick Bodmer, Lancelot Thomas Hogben
Издательство: Norton
Год: 1985
Формат: djvu
Страниц: 688
Для сайта: vtome.ru
Размер: 42.9 Мб
Язык: английский

But this book is more than a guide to foreign languages; it goes deep into the roots of all knowledge as it explores the history of speech. It lights up the dim pathways of prehistory and unfolds the story of the slow growth of human expression from the most primitive signs and sounds to the elaborate variations of the highest cultures. Without language no knowledge would be possible; here we see how language is at once the source and the reservoir of all we know.