Lectures on the science of language. Muller M.

The book of a major philologist and orientalist Max Müller (1823-1900) proposed to the attention of the reader is a publication in the Russian Persian Wood of a series of “Lectures on the Science of Language”.

Borrowing a lot in linguistics from his great predecessors Franz Bopp and Wilhelm von Humboldt, supporting a number of the provisions of his contemporaries of Augustus Schleicher and Georg Kurzius, Max Müller focused in his lectures on establishing the general laws of existence and evolution of the language, connecting the study languages ​​with the study of culture and religious views of peoples. Although the author notes that “declension and conjugation cannot be made entertaining”, he immediately says that “the language also has its own miracles, which open the tortured eye of a patient researcher.”

It is recommended for philologists of various specialties, philosophers, culturalists, students and graduate students of humanitarian faculties.