CiNii Books - Lectures on the science of language : delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in 1861

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- Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

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Lectures on the science of language : delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in 1861

F. Max Müller

（Cambridge library collection, . Linguistics）

Cambridge University Press, 2013

v. 1 : pbk
v. 2 : pbk

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Lectures on the science of language : delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in 1863

Lectures on the science of language : delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in April, May, and June, 1861

Lectures on the science of language : delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in February, March, April, & May, 1863

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Subtitle of v. 2: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in 1863

Originally published: v. 1: London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861; v. 2: London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Volume: v. 1 : pbk ISBN 9781108063043

Description

Born in Germany and trained in Greek, Latin and Sanskrit, Friedrich Max Muller (1823-1900) settled at Oxford, where he would become the university's first professor of comparative philology. Best known for his work on the Rig Veda, he brought the comparative study of language, mythology and religion to a wider audience in Victorian Britain. His lectures at the Royal Institution, published in two volumes between 1861 and 1864, were reprinted fifteen times before the end of the century. Volume 1 contains the nine 1861 lectures, in which Max Muller aligns the science of language with the physical sciences, breaking his subject down into the three stages that he argues mark the history of any branch of human knowledge: the empirical, the classificatory and the theoretical. Hugely successful at the time - George Eliot was particularly enthused - the lectures remain instructive reading in the history of linguistics.

Table of Contents

Preface
1. The science of language one of the physical sciences
2. The growth of language in contradistinction to the history of language
3. The empirical stage in the science of language
4. The classificatory stage in the science of language
5. The genealogical stage in the classification of languages
6. Comparative grammar
7. The constituent elements of language
8. The morphological classification of languages
9. The theoretical stage in the science of language - origin of language
Appendix: genealogical tables of languages
Index.

Volume: v. 2 : pbk ISBN 9781108063050

Description

Born in Germany and trained in Greek, Latin and Sanskrit, Friedrich Max Muller (1823-1900) settled at Oxford, where he would become the university's first professor of comparative philology. Best known for his work on the Rig Veda, he brought the comparative study of language, mythology and religion to a wider audience in Victorian Britain. His lectures at the Royal Institution, published in two volumes between 1861 and 1864, were reprinted fifteen times before the end of the century. Volume 2 contains the twelve 1863 lectures, in which Max Muller argues for the inseparability of the science of language from the science of the mind. He explores 'the body or the outside of language, the sounds in which language is clothed' as well as 'the soul or the inside' and its relation to mythology. Hugely successful at the time - George Eliot was particularly enthused - the lectures remain instructive reading in the history of linguistics.

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Introductory lecture: new materials for the science of language, and new theories
2. Language and reason
3. The physiological alphabet
4. Phonetic change
5. Grimm's law
6. On the principles of etymology
7. On the powers of roots
8. Metaphor
9. The mythology of the Greeks
10. Jupiter, the supreme Aryan god
11. Myths of the dawn
12. Modern mythology
Index.

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