Themes -- Language
Language: both how it is acquired and functions and how it affects
communicaiton among human beings.
- Letter 2.2 and note ("Acquainted with more
languages")
- Letter 4.2 and note ("A foreign accent")
- 1.1.5 and note ("Latin and English")
- 1.1.6 and note ("The structure of
languages, nor the code ... of various states") [1831 only]
- 1.1.10 and note ("Latin ... Greek ...
English ... German")
- 1.4.2 and note ("He muttered some
inarticulate sounds")
- 1.4.8 and note ("An object")
- 1.5.7 and note ("Languages were his
principal study")
- 1.6.7 and note ("This noble war in the
sky")
- 2.1.1 and note ("No language can
describe")
- 2.1.2 and note ("The monster")
- 2.3.5 and note ("I dared not enter
it")
- 2.3.8 and note ("To utter sounds")
- 2.4.3 and note ("A godlike science")
- 2.4.7 and note ("The art of language")
- 2.5.2 and note ("She was neither
understood by ... the cottagers")
- 2.5.2 and note ("I should make use of
the same instructions to the same end")
- 2.5.3 and note ("She and I rapidly
improved in the knowledge of language")
- 2.5.4 and note ("I improved more
rapidly")
- 2.5.4 and note ("Science of letters")
- 2.7.1 and note ("Written in the
language")
- 2.7.4 and note ("Your journal")
- 2.7.7 and note ("Pardon this intrusion")
- 2.7.8 and note ("Are you French")
- 2.8.3 and note ("Violent
gesticulations")
- 2.8.3 and note ("The language of the
country")
- 3.2.1 and note ("The progress of
European colonisation") [1831 only]
- 3.3.2 amd note ("The daemon at the casement")
- 3.3.9 and note ("That language")
- 3.4.4 and note ("As I spoke my native
language")
- 3.4.6 and note ("Addressed me in
French")
- Walton 8 and note ("An eye so full of lofty
design")
- Walton 12 and note ("Generous and
self-devoted being")