The language animal : the full shape of the human linguistic capacity / Charles Taylor.
The language animal : the full shape of the human linguistic capacity / Charles Taylor.
The language animal : the full shape of the human linguistic capacity / Charles Taylor.
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Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016.
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G 2016/665
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Language
English
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Physical content
x, 352 pages ; 25 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Publication information
Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
2016.
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Summary
"In this book, Charles Taylor explains linguistic holism to people who believe language needs to be thought of as bits of information. According to one influential view of language, one that originated with Hobbes, Locke, and Condillac, language serves to encode information and to communicate it. This theory has been rendered more sophisticated ove...
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The language animal : the full shape of the human linguistic capacity / Charles Taylor.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2016/665
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74VKzoEBNWqA
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ISBN
067466020X (alk. paper)
9780674660205 (alk. paper)
DDC
401
MMS ID
991023529679702626
