I Speak, Therefore I Am: Seventeen Thoughts about Language

by Andrea Moro

Book Overview

In I Speak, Therefore I Am, the Italian linguist and neuroscientist Andrea Moro composes an album of his favorite quotations from the history of linguistics, beginning with the Book of Genesis and the power of naming and concluding with Noam Chomsky's metaphor that language is a snowflake. Moro's seventeen linguistic thoughts and his commentary on them display the humanness of language: our need to name and interpret this world and create imaginary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231177410
• ISBN13: 9780231177412
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 6.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher