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The Language Myth in Western Culture, PDF eBook

The Language Myth in Western Culture PDF

Edited by Roy Harris

Part of the Routledge Advances in Communication and Linguistic Theory series

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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.

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