Publications

Publication details [#30162]

Ricken, Ulrich. 1994. Linguistics, anthropology and philosophy in the French Enlightenment. ix + 287 pp.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language and culture | language and thought | linguistics | philosophical anthropology

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

The first part of this volume deals with the 17th-century rationalist language doctrine. The second part, devoted to the 18th century, discusses word order, linguistic relativity, and the historicist and evolutionary aspects of linguistic thought.

Reviewed by

Aarsleff, Hans. 1995. Review article.