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From: svzandt@igc.apc.org Tue Jan 27 12:35:29 1998
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 12:34:31 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: <199801272034.MAA29959@igc2.igc.apc.org>
From: Solidarity Foundation 
To: histneur-l@library.ucla.edu
Subject: speech and speech pathology


Subscribers to this list may wish to know about my book, which has just
been published:

THE NOBLEST ANIMATE MOTION
Speech, physiology and medicine in
pre-Cartesian linguistic thought
JEFFREY WOLLOCK
Solidarity Foundation, New York

The body of theory on speech production and speech disorder developed
prior to Descartes has been so neglected by historians that its very 
existence is practically unknown today. Yet it provides a framework for
understanding the speech process which is not only comprehensive and coherent,
but of great relevance to current debates on issues of language performance and
applied linguistics. This is because, the author contends, current theoretical
difficulties stem largely from initial errors of Descartes;
whereas earlier theoretical formulations, while outlining a bio-
mechanics of speech, retain the central role of the human person.

Speech pathology is usually thought of as a "new" discipline, but its roots go
back to the ancient Greeks and Roman philosophers and medical writers. 
The Noblest Animate Motion provides the most comprehensive account of the
ancient theory of speech pathology available. The discussions explicated in
this book come mainly from the natural-philosophic and medical literature of
Greco-Roman Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance and early 17th
century. This uncharted territory is mapped here for the first time by tracing
its textual history and diffusion as well as explaining the theory on its own
terms but in language that will be clear and comprehensible to non-specialists.

Interdisciplinary in perspective, the book encompasses topics of interest not
only to speech pathology, but also to experimental phonetics, speech and
rhetoric. the biosciences, medicine, philosophy of human movement, psychology
and behavioral sciences, neurosciences, and the history of science in general.

Studies in the History of Language Sciences, 83
1997. l + 462 pp. with index Hb   90 272 4571 1
Hfl. 320,oo, $120.00

John Benjamins Publishing Company
Amsteldijk 44
P.O. Box 75577
1070 AN AMSTERDAM Holland
Tel (020) 6738156
Fax (020) 6739773
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-- Jeffrey Wollock (D.Phil., Oxon.)
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