Open AccessLaw and language in a multilingual society
Author(s) -
Louis T.C. Harms
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
per
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.204
H-Index - 6
ISSN - 1727-3781
DOI - 10.17159/1727-3781/2012/v15i2a2477
Subject(s) - law , planet , world trade , political science , linguistics , sociology , philosophy , physics , astronomy , business , international trade
Terence McKenna, in Wild Ducks Flying Backwards, said that he did not believe that the world is made of quarks or electro-magnetic waves, or stars, or planets, or of any such things. ’I believe’ he said, ‘the world is made of language.’ It would have been more correct to have said that the world is made of languages, many of them.