{"product_id":"lectures-on-the-science-of-language-volume-1-delivered-at-the-royal-institution-of-great-britain-in-1861-paperback-9781108063043","title":"Lectures on the Science of Language: Volume 1; Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in 1861 (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108063043","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLectures on the Science of Language: Volume 1\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eDelivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in 1861\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished 1861–4, these two volumes of lectures on philological topics, reprinted multiple times, enthused Victorian readers, including George Eliot.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eF. Max Müller (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108063043, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 26 September 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e416 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.4 cm, 0.53 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eBorn in Germany and trained in Greek, Latin and Sanskrit, Friedrich Max Müller (1823–1900) settled at Oxford, where he would become the university's first professor of comparative philology. Best known for his work on the Rig Veda, he brought the comparative study of language, mythology and religion to a wider audience in Victorian Britain. His lectures at the Royal Institution, published in two volumes between 1861 and 1864, were reprinted fifteen times before the end of the century. Volume 1 contains the nine 1861 lectures, in which Max Müller aligns the science of language with the physical sciences, breaking his subject down into the three stages that he argues mark the history of any branch of human knowledge: the empirical, the classificatory and the theoretical. Hugely successful at the time - George Eliot was particularly enthused - the lectures remain instructive reading in the history of linguistics.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e 1. The science of language one of the physical sciences\u003cbr\u003e 2. The growth of language in contradistinction to the history of language\u003cbr\u003e 3. The empirical stage in the science of language\u003cbr\u003e 4. The classificatory stage in the science of language\u003cbr\u003e 5. The genealogical stage in the classification of languages\u003cbr\u003e 6. Comparative grammar\u003cbr\u003e 7. The constituent elements of language\u003cbr\u003e 8. The morphological classification of languages\u003cbr\u003e 9. The theoretical stage in the science of language - origin of language\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: genealogical tables of languages\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Linguistics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Linguistics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Linguistics%20%5BCF%5D%22\"\u003eCF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005710946584,"sku":"9781108063043","price":35.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108063043i.jpg?v=1696748475","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/lectures-on-the-science-of-language-volume-1-delivered-at-the-royal-institution-of-great-britain-in-1861-paperback-9781108063043","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}