The search for the perfect language

Author(s)

• Eco, Umberto

Bibliographic Information

The search for the perfect language

Umberto Eco ; translated by James Fentress

Fontana Press, 1997

Note

Translated from the Italian

Originally published: Oxford: Blackwell, 1995

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

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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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Details

• NCID: BA5760467X
• ISBN:
  • 9780006863786
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: ita
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: x, 385 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 401.3
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Language and languages -- Origin
  • LCSH : Language and history -- Europe
  • LCSH : Language, Universal
  • LCSH : Language and culture -- Europe
  • LCSH : Europe -- Civilization