Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World
古典罗马世界的语言与自然

Giuseppe Pezzini, University of St Andrews, Scotland
9781108480666|Hardback| USD 99.99
 
300PP 1 table
 
图书简介：
 
这是希腊哲学中一个熟悉的主题，主要是受到柏拉图的《克拉底鲁篇》的影响，语言自然主义（语言事实、结构或行为在某种意义上是由自然决定的概念）构成了罗马语言思想的一个主要但未经过充分研究的领域。实际上，它不仅对语言学的历史，而且对哲学、文体学、修辞学等都具有重要意义。本卷各章节的内容涉及多位作者的一系列自然主义理论，包括西塞罗、瓦尔罗、Nigidius Figulus、波西多尼乌斯和哈利卡纳苏斯的狄奥尼修斯。内容复杂而多面，对语言和自然在古罗马世界中相互关联的情况进行了研究和阐释。
 
• The first collection of essays on linguistic naturalism, an important but under-studied area of Roman linguistic and philosophical thought
• Combines philosophical, literary and linguistic analyses of a wide variety of texts and authors
• Moves beyond narrow, Cratylan models of naturalism to give a broader understanding of Roman naturalist thinking
 
章节内容：
Introduction: first thoughts on language and nature Giuseppe Pezzini and Barnaby Taylor; 1. Posidonius' linguistic naturalism and its philosophical pedigree Alexander Verlinsky; 2. Lucilius on Latin spelling, grammar and usage Anna Chahoud; 3. Nigidius Figulus' naturalism: between grammar and philosophy Alessandro Garcea; 4. Naturalism in morphology: Varro on derivation and inflection Wolfgang D. C. De Melo; 5. What's Hecuba to him? Varro on the natural kinship of things and of words David Blank; 6. Linguistic naturalism in Cicero's Academica Tobias Reinhardt; 7. Linguistic naturalism and natural style: from Varro and Cicero to Dionysius of Halicarnassus Casper C. de Jonge; 8. Natural law and natural language in the first century BCE James Zetzel.
 
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