| Lectures on the Science of Language: Volume 1: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in 1861 Contributor(s): M. Ller, F. Max (Author), Muller, F. Max (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108063047 ISBN-13: 9781108063043 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $53.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
| Dewey: 410 |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics |
| Physical Information: 0.93" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.16 lbs) 416 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Born in Germany and trained in Greek, Latin and Sanskrit, Friedrich Max M ller (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 M ller 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. |
