William Dwight Whitney and the Science of Language

by Stephen G. Alter

Linguistics, or the science of language, emerged as an independent field of study in the nineteenth century, amid the religious and scientific ferment of the Victorian era. William Dwight Whitney, one of that period's most eminent language scholars, argued that his field should be classed among the social sciences, thus laying a theoretical foundation for modern sociolinguistics.

William Dwight Whitney and the Science of Language...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801880203
• ISBN13: 9780801880209
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"