Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language

by Daniel Heller-Roazen

Book Overview

A far-reaching philosophical investigation into the persistence and disappearance of speech, in individuals and in linguistic communities.

Just as speech can be acquired, so can it be lost. Speakers can forget words, phrases, even entire languages they once knew; over the course of time peoples, too, let go of the tongues that were once theirs, as languages disappear and give way to the others that follow them. In Echolalias,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1890951501
• ISBN13: 9781890951504
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Zone Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher