When Words Lose Their Meaning
Subtitle: Constitutions and Reconstitutions of Language, Character, and Community
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: October 15, 1985
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780226895024
Subjects: Calculus & mathematical analysis; Sociolinguistics; General; Law / General; Law; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Criticism; Language and culture; Language and languages
First sentence: When Thucydides wishes to express his sense of the internal chaos brought upon the cities of Greece by the civil wars that arose during the time of the Peloponnesian War, he tells us, among other things, that words themselves lost their meaning.