: Roy Harris
: Language Myth in Western Culture
: Taylor and Francis
: 9781136751462
: 1
: CHF 77.20
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: Kunst, Literatur
: English
The basic claim of this book is that for 2000 years and more the western tradition has relied on two very dubious assumptions about human communication: that each national language is a unique code and that linguistic communication consists in the utilization of such codes to transfer messages from mind to mind.