The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages

The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages

by Frederick Bodmer (Author), Lancelot Thomas Hogben (Editor), Frederick Bodmer (Author), Lancelot Thomas Hogben (Editor)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 720
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 17 Oct 1985

ISBN 10: 039330034X
ISBN 13: 9780393300345

Media Reviews
Makes language study more hopeful and exciting than anything I have read before.--Lewis Gannett
Rewarding and delightful . . . for everyone who has the slightest curiosity or ambition in self expression, this is a book that contains months or years of pleasurable profit.--Christopher Morley
Author Bio
Frederick Bodmer is a distinguished Swiss philologist.