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Formigari Lia <1931-> |
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Titolo |
Signs, science and politics [[electronic resource] ] : philosophies of language in Europe, 1700-1830 / / Lia Formigari ; translated by William Dodd |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 1993 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-31293-X |
9786613312938 |
90-272-7688-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (228 p.) |
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Collana |
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Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series III, Studies in the history of the language sciences, , 0304-0720 ; ; v. 70 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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FormigariLia <1931-> |
DoddWilliam |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Language and languages - Philosophy - History |
Semiotics - History |
Linguistics - Europe - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Rev. and enlarged ed. of: L'esperienza e il segno. Roma : Editori Riuniti, 1990. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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SIGNS, SCIENCE AND POLITICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Preface & Acknowledgements; LIST OF ORIGINAL PLACES OF PUBLICATION; Table of contents; Chapter 1. The Semiotic Control of Experience; Chapter 2. The Semiotic Control of Civil Society; Chapter 3. The Birth of Idealism in Linguistics: The History of a Transition; Bibliography; Indexof Authors; Index of Subjects & Terms |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book tells the story of how 18th-century European philosophy used Locke's theory of signs to build a natural history of speech and to investigate the semiotic tools with which nature and civil society can be controlled. The story ends at the point where this approach to language sciences was called into question. Its epilogue is the description of the birth of an alternative between empiricism and idealism in late 18th- and early 19th-century theories of language.This alternative has given rise to such irreducible dichotomies as empirical linguistics vs. |
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