Signs of light : French and British theories of linguistic communication, 1648-1789 / / Matthew Lauzon
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| Autore: |
Lauzon Matthew <1972->
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| Titolo: |
Signs of light : French and British theories of linguistic communication, 1648-1789 / / Matthew Lauzon
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| Pubblicazione: | Ithaca, NY, : Cornell University Press, 2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (268 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 410.944/09032 |
| Soggetto topico: | Linguistics - France - History - 17th century |
| Linguistics - France - History - 18th century | |
| Linguistics - Great Britain - History - 17th century | |
| Linguistics - Great Britain - History - 18th century | |
| Language and languages - Philosophy - History - 17th century | |
| Language and languages - Philosophy - History - 18th century | |
| Enlightenment - France | |
| Enlightenment - Great Britain | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Bestial banter -- Homo risus : making light of animal language -- Warming savage hearts and heating eloquent tongues -- From savage orators to savage languages -- French levity -- English energy -- Coda : French levity and English energy in the revolutionary wake. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Lauzon traces the development of very different French and British ideas about language over the course of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and demonstrates how important these ideas were to emerging notions of of national character. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Signs of light |
| ISBN: | 0-8014-5894-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910818850303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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