 | Signs of Light: French and British Theories of Linguistic Communication, 1648–1789 Subjects: Linguistics -- France -- History -- 17th century; Linguistics -- France -- History -- 18th century; Linguistics -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Linguistics -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Language and languages -- Philosophy -- H; Lauzon traces the development of very different French and British ideas about language over the course of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and demonstrates how important these ideas were to emerging notions of of national character. Matthew Lauzon is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. |
