The Linguistics of History / / Roy Harris.
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748619306);The task of the historian would be impossible without verbal resources for dating and describing past events. Historians from Herodotus onwards traditionally relied uncritically on their own native languages (including Greek, Latin and English)...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2004 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Language and the historian
- 2 History and the literate revolution
- 3 History as palimpsest
- 4 Historicism and linguistics
- 5 History and ordinary language
- 6 The autonomy of history
- 7 The truth about history
- References
- Index