Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “giulio c lepschy”
Skip side bar filters

  • History of Linguistics Volume II

    Classical and Medieval Linguistics

    by Giulio C. Lepschy ...
    Series series Longman Linguistics Library
    This comprehensive history of linguistics is part of a 5 volume set. Together, the volumes examine the social, cultural and religious functions of language, its place in education, the prestige attached to different varieties of language, and the presentation of lexical and grammatical descriptions. They explore the linguistic interests and assumptions of individual cultures in their own terms, ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

  • History of Linguistics Vol III

    Renaissance and Early Modern Linguistics

    by Giulio C. Lepschy ...
    Series series Longman Linguistics Library
    TheHistory of Linguistics, to be published in five volumes, aims to provide the reader with an authoritative and comprehensive account of the attitudes to language prevailing in different civilizations and in different periods by examining the very varied development of linguistic thought in the specific social, cultural and religious contexts involved. Issues discussed include the place of ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • History of Linguistics, Volume IV

    Nineteenth-Century Linguistics

    by Anna Morpurgo Davies, Giulio C. Lepschy ...
    Series series Longman Linguistics Library
    The History of Linguistics, to be published in five volumes, aims to provide the reader with an authoritative and comprehensive account of the attitudes to language prevailing in different civilizations and in different periods by examining the very varied development of linguistic thought in the specific social, cultural and religious contexts involved. Issues discussed include the place of ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • History of Linguistics Volume I

    The Eastern Traditions of Linguistics

    Edited by Giulio C. Lepschy ...
    Series series Longman Linguistics Library
    This comprehensive history of linguistics is part of a 5 volume set. Together, the volumes examine the social, cultural and religious functions of language, its place in education, the prestige attached to different varieties of language, and the presentation of lexical and grammatical descriptions. They explore the linguistic interests and assumptions of individual cultures in their own terms, ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • From the Tree to the Labyrinth

    by Umberto Eco ...
    How we create and organize knowledge is the theme of this major achievement by Umberto Eco. Demonstrating once again his inimitable ability to bridge ancient, medieval, and modern modes of thought, he offers here a brilliant illustration of his longstanding argument that problems of interpretation can be solved only in historical context. ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • A Short History of Linguistics

    by R.H. Robins ...
    Series series Longman Linguistics Library
    This complete revision and updating of Professor Robins' classic text offers a comprehensive account of the history of linguistic thought from its European origins some 2500 years ago to the present day. It examines the independent development of linguistic science in China and Medieval Islam, and especially in India, which was to have a profound effect on European and American linguistics from ... Read more

    $146.99 CAD

  • The Origin of the Political

    Hannah Arendt or Simone Weil?

    by Roberto Esposito ...
    Translated by Vincenzo Binetti, Gareth Williams ...
    Series series Commonalities
    In this book Roberto Esposito explores the conceptual trajectories of two of the twentieth century’s most vital thinkers of the political: Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil. Taking Homer’s Iliad—that “great prism through which every gesture has the possibility of becoming public, precisely by being observed by others”— as the common origin and point of departure for our understanding of Western ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism

    Edited by Paul Hamilton ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    TThe Oxford Handbook to European Romanticism brings together leading scholars in the field to examine the intellectual, literary, philosophical, and political elements of European Romanticism. The book focuses on the cultural history of the period extending from the French Revolution to the uprisings of 1848. It begins with a series of chapters examining key texts written by major writers in ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Linguistics of Lying And Other Essays

    by Harald Weinrich ...
    Series series Literary Conjugations
    Can language hide thoughts? This question, posed by the German Academy for Language and Literature in 1965 as the topic of its first essay competition, was taken up by the philologist Harald Weinrich, with far-ranging results. The most immediate was his claiming first prize with this volume's title essay, published the following year as Linguistik der Luge. Weinrich's influential essay, now in its ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Art's Philosophical Work

    by Andrew Benjamin ...
    What is the work of art? How does art work as art? Andrew Benjamin contends that the only way to address these questions is by developing a radically new materialist philosophy of art, and by rethinking the history of art from within that perspective.A materialist philosophy of art starts with the contention that meaning is only ever the after effect of the way in which materials work. Starting ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Wheelock's Latin, 7th Edition

    by Frederic M. Wheelock, Richard A. LaFleur ...
    Generations of students have learned Latin with this classic introductory Latin grammar textbook that remains the most highly regarded and bestselling single-volume of its kind.Wheelock’s Latin 7th Edition retains its signature core of authentic Latin readings—curated from the works of Cicero, Vergil, and other major Roman authors of Roman literature, drama, and poetry, as well as inscriptions, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Serendipities

    Language and Lunacy

    by Umberto Eco ...
    Translated by William Weaver ...
    Series series Italian Academy Lectures
    Best-selling author Umberto Eco's latest work unlocks the riddles of history in an exploration of the "linguistics of the lunatic," stories told by scholars, scientists, poets, fanatics, and ordinary people in order to make sense of the world. Exploring the "Force of the False," Eco uncovers layers of mistakes that have shaped human history, such as Columbus's assumption that the world was much ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD