{"product_id":"the-history-of-linguistics-in-europe-from-plato-to-1600-hardback-9780521563154","title":"The History of Linguistics in Europe; From Plato to 1600 (Hardback) 9780521563154","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe History of Linguistics in Europe\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFrom Plato to 1600\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book, first published in 2003, examines the history of western linguistics from ancient Greece up to the Renaissance.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eVivien Law (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521563154, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 January 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e326 pages, 25 b\/w illus.  5 maps\u003cbr\u003e24.4 x 17 x 1.9 cm, 0.72 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"...a book very useful for scholars.  Each chapter is readable, entertaining, and full of background information needed to put things in context.  Anthropologists will find this book of particular interest because of its emphasis on understanding people different from oneself.\"  \u003cbr\u003eAnthropological Linguistics  \u003cbr\u003eAnthropological Linguistics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis authoritative and wide-ranging book, first published in 2003, examines the history of western linguistics over a 2000-year timespan, from its origins in ancient Greece up to the crucial moment of change in the Renaissance that laid the foundations of modern linguistics. Some of today's burning questions about language date back a long way: in 1400 BC Plato was asking how words relate to reality.  Other questions go back just a few generations, such as our interest in the mechanisms of language change, or in the social factors that shape the way we speak. Vivien Law explores how ideas about language over the centuries have changed to reflect changing modes of thinking. A survey chapter brings the coverage of the book up to the present day. Classified bibliographies and chapters on research resources and the qualities the historian of linguistics needs to develop, provide the reader with the tools to go further.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Getting ready to study the history of linguistics\u003cbr\u003e 2. Greek philosophy and the origins of western linguistics\u003cbr\u003e 3. Towards a discipline of grammar: the transition from philosophy\u003cbr\u003e 4. From literacy to grammar: describing language structure in the ancient world\u003cbr\u003e 5. Christianity and language\u003cbr\u003e 6. The early Middle Ages\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Carolingian Renaissance\u003cbr\u003e 8. Scholasticism: linking language and reality\u003cbr\u003e 9. Medieval vernacular grammars\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Renaissance: discovery of the outer world\u003cbr\u003e 11. And what happened next? Linguistics since 1600 - in brief\u003cbr\u003e 12. Becoming a historian of linguistics.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of ideas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of ideas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20ideas%20%5BJFCX%5D%22\"\u003eJFCX\u003c\/a\u003e], Philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20%5BHP%5D%22\"\u003eHP\u003c\/a\u003e], 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":46006058254616,"sku":"9780521563154","price":77.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521563154i_2a5add21-4a55-4d00-b2af-24e8081f55a8.jpg?v=1691369810","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-history-of-linguistics-in-europe-from-plato-to-1600-hardback-9780521563154","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}