Darwinism and the Linguistic Image: Language, Race, and Natural Theology in the Nineteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9780801872440 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 216 str.

Stephen G. Alter

Opis

In the nineteenth century, philology--especially comparative philology--made impressive gains as a discipline, thus laying the foundation for the modern field of linguistics. In Darwinism and the Linguistic Image, Stephen G. Alter examines how comparative philology provided a genealogical model of language that Darwin, as well as other scientists and language scholars, used to construct rhetorical parallels with the common-descent theory of evolution.