Vico, Metaphor, and the Origin of Language

by Marcel Danesi

Drawing upon the work of the eighteenth-century Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico, this work presents an account of the evolution and development of language. It seeks to reconstruct the primitive mind that generated language and the evolutionary events that must have preceded the advent of speech.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253316073
• ISBN13: 9780253316073
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 190 Pages