Darwinism and the Linguistic Image

Language, Race, and Natural Theology in the Nineteenth Century
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8018-7244-0
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 365 g

Reihe: New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alter, Stephen G.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Alter, Stephen G.
Stephen G. Alter, professor of history at Gordon College, Massachusetts, is the author of Darwinism and the Linguistic Image, also available from Johns Hopkins.

Stephen G. Alter is an assistant professor of history at Gordon College in Massachusetts.