Languages of Nature: Critical Essays on Science and LiteratureL. J. Jordanova |
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... language and mind , and about the history and taxonomy of specific languages ( Aarsleff , 1967 , 1982 ; Smith , 1984 ) . Language was a part of nature , to be analysed accordingly . A highly developed consciousness of the role of ...
... language and mind , and about the history and taxonomy of specific languages ( Aarsleff , 1967 , 1982 ; Smith , 1984 ) . Language was a part of nature , to be analysed accordingly . A highly developed consciousness of the role of ...
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... language is reflected in the dictionaries and encyclopaedias which characterize our period . Not only did such publications represent a codifica- tion of informal language practices , making it all the easier to discuss languages as ...
... language is reflected in the dictionaries and encyclopaedias which characterize our period . Not only did such publications represent a codifica- tion of informal language practices , making it all the easier to discuss languages as ...
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... language . - Language is something more palpable than a fold of the brain , or an angle of the skull . It admits of no cavilling , and no process of natural selection will ever distill significant words out of the notes of birds or the ...
... language . - Language is something more palpable than a fold of the brain , or an angle of the skull . It admits of no cavilling , and no process of natural selection will ever distill significant words out of the notes of birds or the ...
Contents
Contributors | 7 |
Introduction | 15 |
Nature as Ethical Norm in the Enlightenment | 51 |
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