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Author Trabant, Jürgen.

Title Vico's new science of ancient signs : a study of sematology / Jürgen Trabant ; translated from the German by Sean Ward ; foreword by Donald Phillip Verene
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 155 pages) : illustrations
Series Routledge studies in the history of linguistics
Routledge studies in the history of linguistics.
Contents Foreword / Donald Phillip Verene -- 1. Mr. Vico, Renato, and philology -- 2. Vico's discovery: poetic characters -- 3. Gestures and objects (semata), words -- 4. The common mental dictionary -- 5. To speak by writing (Derrida-Rousseau) -- 6. To speak by singing (Herder) -- 7. Memoria-fantasia-ingegno -- 8. Vico and Humboldt on imagination and language
Summary "Vico's New Science of Ancient Signs will be essential reading for advanced students and academics within the fields of linguistics and philosophy."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Jürgen Trabant is professor of French and Italian linguistics at the Free University Berlin. His main fields of research are the history of linguistics and language philosophy, semiotics, especially semiotics of literature and language politics. Sean Ward is a writer and translator. He lives in Arlington, Virginia and is co-editor, with Jürgen Trabant, of New Essays on the Origin of Language (2001)
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Subject Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744
SUBJECT Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744 fast
Vico, Giambattista. swd
Subject Semantics (Philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Etymology.
Semantics (Philosophy)
Semantik
Lexikologie
Aufklärung
Sprachphilosophie
Sprachzeichen
Semiotik
Semiotiek.
Form Electronic book
Author Ward, Sean.
ISBN 9781134390649
1134390645
9780203455982
0203455983
9781003209423
1003209424
9781000448245
100044824X
9781000445510
1000445518
Other Titles Neue Wissenschaft von alten Zeichen. English