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From the dawn of time to the mid-twentieth century, Mario Pei discusses the formation and development of language - the weapon by which mankind has advanced from savagery to civilization.
In his lecture Linguistics and Poetics, Russian-American linguist Roman Jakobson (1896–1982) explores the relationship between language and literature, arguing that poetics is a subdivision of linguistics that deals with what makes a verbal message a work
The book is still required reading at philological faculties today because it systematically connects language with literature and social context for the first time. It is written clearly, without ideological exclusivity, which was a rarity in 1990.
The need for such a dictionary has been felt for a long time, and not only among the few experts of the Latin language. Namely, the existing dictionaries cannot satisfy the ever-increasing demands of users.
Linguistic and cultural essays on transmediality
