Inhabiting Human Languages: The Substantivist Visualization - Hardcover

Probal Dasgupta

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8187374705 ISBN 13: 9788187374701

Publisher: Samskriti, 2012

Synopsis

Not only words such as 'roof but also names like 'Cecily' shape the way you inhabit your languages, says this monograph dressed up as a sermon that urges philosophers to adopt Esperanto as a means for conceptual clarification. Certain ideas from translation studies, from generative linguistics and from poststructuralist literary theory are thrown in, with standard philosophical ingredients, to arrive at a conceptual cuisine for our time and context. Even readers not keyed into the specialized material involved may enjoy the novel like narrative focused on the life of Cecily Biswas. Not only words such as 'roof but also names like 'Cecily' shape the way you inhabit your languages, says this monograph dressed up as a sermon that urges philosophers to adopt Esperanto as a means for conceptual clarification. Certain ideas from translation studies, from generative linguistics and from poststructuralist literary theory are thrown in, with standard philosophical ingredients, to arrive at a conceptual cuisine for our time and context. Even readers not keyed into the specialized material involved may enjoy the novel like narrative focused on the life of Cecily Biswas.

Edition details

• Publisher: Samskriti
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8187374705
• ISBN 13: 9788187374701
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 148