Publication

2016 - Columbia University Press

Language

English

Word Count

24,000 words, Guess

Page Count

96 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780231177412
  • ISBN-100231177410
  • Better World Books9780231177412
  • Open LibraryOL28594267M

Classifications

  • LCCP106.M66513 2016

Description

In I Speak, Therefore I Am, the Italian linguist and neuroscientist Andrea Moro composes an album of his favorite quotations from the history of linguistics, beginning with the Book of Genesis and the power of naming and concluding with Noam Chomsky's metaphor that language is a snowflake. Moro's seventeen linguistic thoughts and his commentary on them display the humanness of language: our need to name and interpret this world and create imaginary ones, to express and understand ourselves. This book is sure to delight anyone who enjoys the ineffable paradox that is human language. --

Subjects

Other Editions

  • I Speak, Therefore I Am - Seventeen Thoughts about LanguageColumbia University Press2016

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