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Author Paxman, David B., 1946- author.

Title Voyage into language : space and the linguistic encounter, 1500-1800 / David B. Paxman
Published London : Routledge, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Contents 1. Space and language : language in space -- 2. Mapping language -- 3. Language barriers -- 4. Containing language : what language contains -- 5. Philosophical grammar, or language and world in stasis -- 6. Rhetoric and the expanding world -- 7. Locke and after: language as the mind's space -- 8. Language as the joruney of the human mind: typology, national culture, and the role of the linguist
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 4, 2017)
Subject Space and time in language -- History
Language and languages -- Philosophy.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Historical & Comparative.
Language and languages -- Philosophy
Space and time in language
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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