VI. Test Yourself
True
or false?
The ancient views about language point to the primacy of it in the
way human beings conceive of the word.
Ancient interpretations of language are not as
deep as the well known definition of it as the main means of
communication.
Modern science has plenty of data about which language was the first
an the Earth.
VII. References
Crystal D. Linguistics. 2nd
ed; Penguin Books, 1996. Chapter 2.
Dauenhauer
B. P. Antiquity.
Bloomington:
Indian University Press, 1982, p. 18-22
Malinowski B. (1923) The Problem of Meaning in
Primitive Languages / Supplement I to: C. K. Ogden and I. A.
Richards. The Meaning of Meaning, L.: Kegan Paul,
9th
edn; p. 210-222
Сепир Э. Язык, раса и культура / Избранные
труды по языкознанию и культурологи.
М: Универс, 1993, с. 185-194
VIII. Recommended Reading for Further Study
Рождественский Ю. В. Индийское
грамматическое учение. Панини / Т.
А. Амирова, Б.А.
Ольховиков, Ю. В. Рождественский. История
языкознания, М.: ACADEMIA,
2003, с. 60-75
Aitchison J. The Articulate Mammal. 3d. edn, Routledge, 1992,
chapter 1.
Widdowson H. G. Linguistics. OUP, 1996, p. 3-4
IX.
Key
1 –
T
2 –
F
3 - F
