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Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language
Daniel Heller-Roazen
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Description for Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language
Paperback. A far-reaching philosophical investigation into the persistence and disappearance of speech, in individuals and in linguistic communities. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: CFA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 448.
A far-reaching philosophical investigation into the persistence and disappearance of speech, in individuals and in linguistic communities. Just as speech can be acquired, so can it be lost. Speakers can forget words, phrases, even entire languages they once knew; over the course of time peoples, too, let go of the tongues that were once theirs, as languages disappear and give way to the others that follow them. In Echolalias, Daniel Heller-Roazen reflects on the many forms of linguistic forgetfulness, offering a far-reaching philosophical investigation into the persistence and disappearance of speech. In twenty-one brief chapters, he moves ... Read more
A far-reaching philosophical investigation into the persistence and disappearance of speech, in individuals and in linguistic communities. Just as speech can be acquired, so can it be lost. Speakers can forget words, phrases, even entire languages they once knew; over the course of time peoples, too, let go of the tongues that were once theirs, as languages disappear and give way to the others that follow them. In Echolalias, Daniel Heller-Roazen reflects on the many forms of linguistic forgetfulness, offering a far-reaching philosophical investigation into the persistence and disappearance of speech. In twenty-one brief chapters, he moves ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Zone Books United States
Number of pages
287
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
447g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781890951504
SKU
V9781890951504
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About Daniel Heller-Roazen
Daniel Heller-Roazen is the Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature and the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University. He is the author of Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language, The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation, The Enemy of All: Piracy and the Law of Nations, and The Fifth Hammer: Pythagoras and the Disharmony of the World, ... Read more
Reviews for Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language
This is a superb book. It combines erudition of the subtlest kind with literary finesse. We read it with pleasure and intellectual gain. And it truly makes us think - about the act of speaking, about the languages, about poets. Books don't come any better than this. -Jurgen Trabant, Suddeutsche Zeitung Heller-Roazen blends tremendous erudition in a ... Read more