The Origin of Language: A Formal Theory of Representation

Gans, Eric Lawrence

ISBN 10: 0520042026 / ISBN 13: 9780520042025

Published by Univ of California Pr, 1981

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[From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. xiii, 314 p. ; 24 cm. "Professor Gans writes well, with verve and clarity, and he constructs a consistent argument that has persuasive power. I found myself frequently interested, not so much by the main thesis, but by several side episodes and remarks. An active and resourceful mind is at work here on a somewhat aberrant scheme and it is often possible to forget the scheme for the sake of the mind." Paul de Man, Yale University "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation." - Johns Hopkins University.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Origin of Language: A Formal Theory of Representation
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520042026
• ISBN 13: 9780520042025
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Linguistics

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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA HB/DJ,1981