Lingua Mentalis
Subtitle: The Semantics of Natural Language
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: February 28, 1981
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9780127500508
Subjects: Historical & comparative linguistics; Sociology; Semantics; Social Science; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Thought and thinking; Aeronautics & Astronautics; Etymology; General; Social Science / General
First sentence: The idea that human beings have a mental language ("lingua mentalis") over and above their particular oral languages ("linguae vocales, linguae gentium"), and that in speaking they express outwardly the inner speech which occurs in their minds, is of great antiquity.