The Power of Babel: A Study of Logophilia

by Michel Pierssens, Carl R. Lovitt (Translator)

English, French (translation)

Genres: Linguistics

126 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1980

Reviews

[Osiris Oliphant]

logophilia, a perversion of philology in which some obscure element of language (sound symbolism, puns, decomposition of words down to elements which reveal true meaning, etc) seems to exist in common between two languages, and is obsessively used to create and justify erroneous eccentric theories . 5 classic case studies on- Mallarme, Saussure, Roussel, Wolfson and Brisset.