Darwinism And The Linguistic Image
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Author |
: Stephen G. Alter |
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Total Pages |
: 224 |
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: 1999 |
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: UCSC:32106014194507 |
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: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Darwinism and the Linguistic Image by : Stephen G. Alter
"A rich and rewarding account of the often subtle connections that bound the nineteenth-century sciences of language and life." -- British Journal of the History of Science
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: August Schleicher |
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Total Pages |
: 88 |
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: 1869 |
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: RMS:RMS64S$$000017985$$$$ |
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: 4/5 ($$ Downloads) |
Synopsis Darwinism Tested by the Science of Language by : August Schleicher
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: William Dwight Whitney |
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Total Pages |
: 34 |
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: 1999 |
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: STANFORD:36105125568605 |
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: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Darwinism and Language by : William Dwight Whitney
Author |
: Robert J. Richards |
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: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 278 |
Release |
: 2013-11-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226059099 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022605909X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Was Hitler a Darwinian? by : Robert J. Richards
In tracing the history of Darwin’s accomplishment and the trajectory of evolutionary theory during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, most scholars agree that Darwin introduced blind mechanism into biology, thus banishing moral values from the understanding of nature. According to the standard interpretation, the principle of survival of the fittest has rendered human behavior, including moral behavior, ultimately selfish. Few doubt that Darwinian theory, especially as construed by the master’s German disciple, Ernst Haeckel, inspired Hitler and led to Nazi atrocities. In this collection of essays, Robert J. Richards argues that this orthodox view is wrongheaded. A close historical examination reveals that Darwin, in more traditional fashion, constructed nature with a moral spine and provided it with a goal: man as a moral creature. The book takes up many other topics—including the character of Darwin’s chief principles of natural selection and divergence, his dispute with Alfred Russel Wallace over man’s big brain, the role of language in human development, his relationship to Herbert Spencer, how much his views had in common with Haeckel’s, and the general problem of progress in evolution. Moreover, Richards takes a forceful stand on the timely issue of whether Darwin is to blame for Hitler’s atrocities. Was Hitler a Darwinian? is intellectual history at its boldest.
Author |
: Sir Frederick Bateman |
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Total Pages |
: 266 |
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: 1877 |
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: NYPL:33433010822116 |
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: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Darwinism Tested by Language by : Sir Frederick Bateman
Author |
: Stephen G. Alter |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 2021-06-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781421429113 |
ISBN-13 |
: 142142911X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis William Dwight Whitney and the Science of Language by : Stephen G. Alter
Linguistics, or the science of language, emerged as an independent field of study in the nineteenth century, amid the religious and scientific ferment of the Victorian era. William Dwight Whitney, one of that period's most eminent language scholars, argued that his field should be classed among the social sciences, thus laying a theoretical foundation for modern sociolinguistics. William Dwight Whitney and the Science of Language offers a full-length study of America's pioneer professional linguist, the founder and first president of the American Philological Association and a renowned Orientalist. In recounting Whitney's remarkable career, Stephen G. Alter examines the intricate linguistic debates of that period as well as the politics of establishing language study as a full-fledged science. Whitney's influence, Alter argues, extended to the German Neogrammarian movement and the semiotic theory of Ferdinand de Saussure. This exploration of an early phase of scientific language study provides readers with a unique perspective on Victorian intellectual life as well as on the transatlantic roots of modern linguistic theory.
Author |
: Nikolaus Ritt |
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: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 364 |
Release |
: 2004-05-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521826713 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521826716 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Selfish Sounds and Linguistic Evolution by : Nikolaus Ritt
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Author |
: Robert C. Berwick |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 229 |
Release |
: 2017-05-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780262533492 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0262533499 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Why Only Us by : Robert C. Berwick
Berwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an evolutionary account of language and humans' remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire it. “A loosely connected collection of four essays that will fascinate anyone interested in the extraordinary phenomenon of language.” —New York Review of Books We are born crying, but those cries signal the first stirring of language. Within a year or so, infants master the sound system of their language; a few years after that, they are engaging in conversations. This remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire any human language—“the language faculty”—raises important biological questions about language, including how it has evolved. This book by two distinguished scholars—a computer scientist and a linguist—addresses the enduring question of the evolution of language. Robert Berwick and Noam Chomsky explain that until recently the evolutionary question could not be properly posed, because we did not have a clear idea of how to define “language” and therefore what it was that had evolved. But since the Minimalist Program, developed by Chomsky and others, we know the key ingredients of language and can put together an account of the evolution of human language and what distinguishes us from all other animals. Berwick and Chomsky discuss the biolinguistic perspective on language, which views language as a particular object of the biological world; the computational efficiency of language as a system of thought and understanding; the tension between Darwin's idea of gradual change and our contemporary understanding about evolutionary change and language; and evidence from nonhuman animals, in particular vocal learning in songbirds.
Author |
: Ernst Haeckel |
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: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 211 |
Release |
: 1983-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027208774 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027208778 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Linguistics and Evolutionary Theory by : Ernst Haeckel
Contains: The Darwinian Theory and the Science of language (1863) by August Schleicher, translated from the German by Alexander V. W. Bikkers. On the Significance of Language for the Natural History of Man (1865) by August Schleicher, translated from the German by J. Peter Maher. On the Origin of Language (1867) by Wilhelm H. I. Bleek, edited with a preface by Ernst Haeckel, translated from the German by Thomas Davidson.
Author |
: Laura White |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 266 |
Release |
: 2017-06-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351803618 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351803611 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Alice Books and the Contested Ground of the Natural World by : Laura White
Though popular opinion would have us see Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There as whimsical, nonsensical, and thoroughly enjoyable stories told mostly for children; contemporary research has shown us there is a vastly greater depth to the stories than would been seen at first glance. Building on the now popular idea amongst Alice enthusiasts, that the Alice books - at heart - were intended for adults as well as children, Laura White takes current research in a new, fascinating direction. During the Victorian era of the book’s original publication, ideas about nature and our relation to nature were changing drastically. The Alice Books and the Contested Ground of the Natural World argues that Lewis Carroll used the book’s charm, wit, and often puzzling conclusions to counter the emerging tendencies of the time which favored Darwinism and theories of evolution and challenged the then-conventional thinking of the relationship between mankind and nature. Though a scientist and ardent student of nature himself, Carroll used his famously playful language, fantastic worlds and brilliant, often impossible characters to support more the traditional, Christian ideology of the time in which mankind holds absolute sovereignty over animals and nature.