Description: Authoritative and wide-ranging, this book examines the history of western linguistics over a 2000-year timespan, from ancient Greece to the Renaissance. Vivien Law explores how ideas about language over the centuries have changed to reflect evolving modes of thinking. Classified bibliographies and chapters on research resources are included. A survey chapter updates the coverage to the present day.
Brief description: Vivien Law is Reader in the History of Linguistic Thought at Cambridge University, and Fellow of Trinity College.
Review Quotes: "...a book very useful for scholars. Each chapter is readable, entertaining, and full of background information needed to put things in context. Anthropologists will find this book of particular interest because of its emphasis on understanding people different from oneself."
Anthropological Linguistics
Anthropological Linguistics