Loom of Language

by Frederick Bodmer (Author), Frederick Bodmer (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1987

  $3.37

  Here is an informative introduction to language: its origins in the past, its growth through history, and its present use for communication between peoples.

• New

  Paperback
  1985

  $24.23

  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.