by Frederick Bodmer (Author), Lancelot Thomas Hogben (Editor), Frederick Bodmer (Author), Lancelot Thomas Hogben (Editor)
But this book is more than a guide to foreign languages; it goes deep into the roots of all knowledge as it explores the history of speech. It lights up the dim pathways of prehistory and unfolds the story of the slow growth of human expression from the most primitive signs and sounds to the elaborate variations of the highest cultures. Without language no knowledge would be possible; here we see how language is at once the source and the reservoir of all we know.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 720
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 17 Oct 1985
ISBN 10: 039330034X
ISBN 13: 9780393300345