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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 October 2014
      31 October 2013
      ISBN:
      9781139600569
      9781108063050
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139600569
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.77kg, 614 Pages
      • Subjects:
      English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Historical Linguistics, Language and Linguistics
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics
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    Subjects:
    English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Historical Linguistics, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics
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    Born in Germany and trained in Greek, Latin and Sanskrit, Friedrich Max Müller (1823–1900) settled at Oxford, where he would become the university's first professor of comparative philology. Best known for his work on the Rig Veda, he brought the comparative study of language, mythology and religion to a wider audience in Victorian Britain. His lectures at the Royal Institution, published in two volumes between 1861 and 1864, were reprinted fifteen times before the end of the century. Volume 2 contains the twelve 1863 lectures, in which Max Müller argues for the inseparability of the science of language from the science of the mind. He explores 'the body or the outside of language, the sounds in which language is clothed' as well as 'the soul or the inside' and its relation to mythology. Hugely successful at the time - George Eliot was particularly enthused - the lectures remain instructive reading in the history of linguistics.

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