Download or read book The Lure of the Linguistic written by Shelley Laura Frisch and published by Holmes & Meier Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Lure of the Linguistic is the first book to bring together the diverse strands of mystical and Enlightenment speculations on the origin of language to highlight the unique manner in which eighteenth-century thought has shaped our modern understanding of language."--Jacket.