Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition by Umberto Eco

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I freely confess that I didn't understand half of what Eco was trying to tell me in this book. Linguistics is fascinating, but my background, despite a semester's worth of study in grad school, is too limited. Still, Eco is a fine writer, and his examples/illustrations are often entertaining.

This is a book meant for serious students of linguistics, and not the faint of heart (to coin a phrase).



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