| Lectures on the Science of Language: Volume 2: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in 1863 Contributor(s): M. Ller, F. Max (Author), Muller, F. Max (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108063055 ISBN-13: 9781108063050 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $71.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
| Dewey: 410 |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics |
| Physical Information: 1.36" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.70 lbs) 614 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 2 contains the twelve 1863 lectures, in which Max M ller 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. |
