Lectures on the Science of Language : Volume 1: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in 1861

F. Max M. Ller

ISBN 10: 1108063047 / ISBN 13: 9781108063043

Edité par Cambridge University Press, 2013

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Born in Germany and trained in Greek, Latin and Sanskrit, Friedrich Max Müller (1823-1900) settled at Oxford, where he would become the university's first professor of comparative philology. Best known for his work on the Rig Veda, he brought the comparative study of language, mythology and religion to a wider audience in Victorian Britain. His lectures at the Royal Institution, published in two volumes between 1861 and 1864, were reprinted fifteen times before the end of the century. Volume 1 contains the nine 1861 lectures, in which Max Müller aligns the science of language with the physical sciences, breaking his subject down into the three stages that he argues mark the history of any branch of human knowledge: the empirical, the classificatory and the theoretical. Hugely successful at the time - George Eliot was particularly enthused - the lectures remain instructive reading in the history of linguistics.

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• Titre: Lectures on the Science of Language : Volume 1: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in 1861
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date de parution: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1108063047
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781108063043
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 216 L x 140 H x 24 P (en millimètres) 216 millimètres de largeur par 140 millimètres de hauteur par 24 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 584 grammes

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Synopsis

Published 1861–4, these two volumes of lectures on philological topics, reprinted multiple times, enthused Victorian readers, including George Eliot.