The search for the perfect language

著者

• Eco, Umberto

書誌事項

The search for the perfect language

Umberto Eco ; translated by James Fentress

Fontana Press, 1997

注記

Translated from the Italian

Originally published: Oxford: Blackwell, 1995

Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-371) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

From the early Dark Ages to the Renaissance it was widely believed that the language spoken in the Garden of Eden was a perfect language, expressing all possible things, and that all current languages were its decadent descendants. This is an investigation into the history of this idea.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA5760467X
• ISBN:
  • 9780006863786
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 原本言語コード: ita
• 出版地: London
• ページ数/冊数: x, 385 p.
• 大きさ: 20 cm
• 分類:
  • DC21 : 401.3
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Language and languages -- Origin
  • LCSH : Language and history -- Europe
  • LCSH : Language, Universal
  • LCSH : Language and culture -- Europe
  • LCSH : Europe -- Civilization