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THE LANGUAGE ANIMAL

on BBC Radio 3

Two talks by GEORGE STEINER
Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge 1: The Language of Life
Emergence into the condition of articulateness has long been thought of as the very essence of man; words and creativeness were linked by both the Jewish and the Greek traditions. But modern science now makes us consider thinking about biology itself in terms of coding and messages. is our very physical being grammatical?
2: Tongues and forms: Feb. 9

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