The Loom of Language. A Guide to Foreign Languages for the Home Student
Language: English
Published by The Merlin Press Ltd, 1981
- Hardcover
- Used
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Excellent condition rare 1981 edition of the original 1944, edited and arranged by Lancelot Hogben. Internally clean on the text with only a name and price on the front end page. Pages are bright and white and dark red covers and gilt lettering are still bright. Dust jacket is lightly shelf worn and dust marked but in overall excellent condition. NOT clipped. Wrapped in protective plastic removable cover.
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- Title
- The Loom of Language. A Guide to Foreign Languages for the Home Student
- Author
- Frederick Bodmer
- Publisher
- The Merlin Press Ltd
- Publication year
- 1981
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 085036275X
- ISBN 13
- 9780850362756
Here is an informative introduction to language: its origins in the past, its growth through history, and its present use for communication between peoples.
It is at the same time a history of language, a guide to foreign tongues, and a method for learning them. It shows, through basic vocabularies, family resemblances of languagesâ Teutonic, Romance, Greekâ helpful tricks of translation, key combinations of roots and phonetic patterns. It presents by common-sense methods the most helpful approach to the mastery of many languages; it condenses vocabulary to a minimum of essential words; it simplifies grammar in an entirely new way; and it teaches a languages as it is actually used in everyday life.But this book is more than a guide to foreign languages; it goes deep into the roots of all knowledge as it explores the history of speech. It lights up the dim pathways of prehistory and unfolds the story of the slow growth of human expression from the most primitive signs and sounds to the elaborate variations of the highest cultures. Without language no knowledge would be possible; here we see how language is at once the source and the reservoir of all we know.
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