TY - JOUR AU - Alonso-Cortés Manteca, Ángel AU - Cabrillo Rodríguez, Francisco PY - 2010 SN - 1469-5936 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/41833 T2 - The European Journal of the history of economic thought AB - Adam Smith argued that division of labour and language are linked to the concept of persuasion. Wowever, this paper asserts that trade in the long run and linguistic communication have their roots in trust and probity since both imply some sort... LA - eng PB - Routlege, Londres KW - Adam Smith Problem KW - Language origins KW - Linguistics pragmatics TI - From merchants to speakers: the common origins of trade and language TY - journal article VL - 19 ER -