Landmarks In Linguistic Thought
Subtitle: The Western Tradition from Socrates to Saussure (History of Linguistic Thought)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: April 17, 1997
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780415153614
First sentence: The Classical Greek view of language as a human accomplishment is nowhere better expressed than in the following passage from the famous Athenian rhetorician Isocrates (436-338 BC): In most of our abilities we differ not at all from the animals; we are in fact behind many in swiftness and strength and other resources.