Words and Things

by Roger Brown

Through exploration of the origins of language, Roger Brown helps readers understand how language has developed from its beginnings into the marketing, advertising, and communication tools we use it as today.Providing commentary on language through the context of human behavior, Words and Things looks at the origins of language in the world of children and primitives and traces its development across the ages.Exploring how language has become a tool of propaganda and advertising, Roger Brown explores the process of choosing sounds for ideas and looks for the earliest root words with which language began.

Genres: Linguistics, Psychology, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Writing

Hardcover

First published November 1, 1968

Reviews

[Chãndí · Rating 3 out of 5]

There was quite a substantial amount of accessing and rereading in the contents of this book for a few areas. Perhaps it had to do with the books credited academic aggregation as it seemed to shift from a more detailed scientific research journal into oscillating between the aims of intellectual matters, which managed its rigor more than my initial expectations. The greatest takeaways from books are the overall relevancies the study of language has despite differing contexts and recapitulations of former theories meeting reformed studies as concepts involving the cognitive, social psychological and biological fields organize one another sufficiently. Few of the broad chapters covered the general areas of linguistics (perhaps a little too esoteric in the chapters 1, 6 and 7) following subtopics within each bringing attention plenty of expositions, practical examples, and analysis working together to form a more coherent, balanced position. If one is unfamiliar with linguistics, interested in cognitive science and/or language arts and the social interdisciplinary connections behind it, this is worth a read. Enjoy, fellow readers!