I Speak, Therefore I Am - Seventeen Thoughts about Language
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780231177405
Subjects: Language and languages, philosophy
Description: In I Speak, Therefore I Am, the Italian linguist and neuroscientist Andrea Moro composes an album of his favorite quotations from the history of linguistics, beginning with the Book of Genesis and the power of naming and concluding with Noam Chomsky's metaphor that language is a snowflake. Moro's seventeen linguistic thoughts and his commentary on them display the humanness of language: our need to name and interpret this world and create imaginary ones, to express and understand ourselves. This book is sure to delight anyone who enjoys the ineffable paradox that is human language. --