Battle in the Mind Fields

by John A. Goldsmith and Bernard Laks

"We frequently see one idea appear in one discipline as if it were new, when it migrated from another discipline, like a mole that had dug under a fence and popped up on the other side."

Taking note of this phenomenon, John Goldsmith and Bernard Laks embark on a uniquely interdisciplinary history of the genesis of linguistics, from nineteenth-century currents of thought in the mind sciences through to the origins of structuralism and the ruptures,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022655080X
• ISBN13: 9780226550800
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 6.6" x 9.2"