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Year:
1690
Short description:
Locke's 'An essay concerning human understanding'
Medium description:
Book 3 of which was concerned with 'words or language in general'
Tags:
history of linguistics
in Britain
Robins R. H. (1997). A Short History of Linguistics 4th ed. Harlow: Longman [p.129]
Howatt, A. P. R. (1984). A History of English Language Teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press [p.322]
Hawkins, E. (1981). Modern Languages in the Curriculum. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [p.100]
Deutscher, Guy (2010). Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages. London: Heinemann [p.14]