The Language Myth in Western Culture
Roy Harris
320 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0700714537
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Language: English
Publish: December 14, 2001
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.