Review of Universal language schemes in England and France 1600-1800 by James R. Knowlson
Author : Emma Vorlat
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Page : 6 pages
File Size : 50,42 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Language, Universal
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Author : Emma Vorlat
Publisher :
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 50,42 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Language, Universal
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Author : James Knowlson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 15,25 MB
Release : 1975-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1487591020
For centuries Latin served as an international language for scholars in Europe. Yet as early as the first half of the seventeenth century, scholars, philosophers, and scientists were beginning to turn their attention to the possibility of formulating a totally new universal language. This wide-ranging book focuses upon the role that it was thought an ideal, universal, constructed language would play in the advancement of learning. The first section examines seventeenth-century attempts to establish a universal 'common writing' or, as Bishop Wilkins called it, a 'real character and philosophical language.' This movement involved or interested scientists and philosophers as distinguished as Descartes, Mersenne, Comenius, Newton, Hooke, and Leibniz. The second part of the book follows the same theme through to the final years of the eighteenth century, where the implications of language-building for the progress of knowledge are presented as part of the wider question which so interested French philosophers, that of the influence of signs on thought. The author also includes a chapter tracing the frequent appearance of ideal languages in French and English imaginary voyages, and an appendix on the idea that gestural signs might supply a universal language. This work is intended as a contribution to the history of ideas rather than of linguistics proper, and because it straddles several disciplines, will interest a wide variety of reader. It treats comprehensively a subject that has not previously been adequately dealt with, and should become the standard work in its field.
Author : Hans Aarsleff
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Page : pages
File Size : 39,81 MB
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Author : Vivian Salmon
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,49 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027286116
This volume brings together a number of papers by Vivian Salmon, previously published in various journals and collections that are unfamiliar, and perhaps even inaccessible, to historians of the study of language. The central theme of the volume is the study of language in England in the 17th century. Papers in the first section treat aspects of the history of language teaching. The second section consists of three articles on the history of grammatical theory. The papers in the third and final section deal with the search for the ‘universal language’.
Author : James Knowlson
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,67 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Language, Universal
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Author : Marc Shell
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 46,89 MB
Release : 2000-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0814797520
"American literature appears here as more than an offshoot of a single mother country, or of many mother countries, but rather as the interaction among diverse linguistic and cultural trajectories.".
Author : Lia Formigari
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 34,16 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027278628
The focus of this volume is the crisis of the traditional view of the relationship between words and things and the emergence of linguistic arbitrarism in 17th-century British philosophy. Different groups of sources are explored: philological and antiquarian writings, pedagogical treatises, debates on the respective merits of the liberal and mechanical arts, essays on cryptography and the art of gestures, polemical pamphlets on university reform, universal language scheme, and philosophical analyses of the conduct of the understanding. In the late 17th-century the philosophy of mind discards both the correspondence of predicamental series to reality and the archetypal metaphysics underpinning it. This is a turning point in semantic theory: language is conceived as the social construction of historical-conventional objects through signs and the study of strategies we use to bridge the gap between the privacy of experience and the publicness of speech emerges as one of the main topics in the philosophy of language.
Author : E.F.K. Koerner
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 43,40 MB
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027281327
The present bibliography suggests that there has been a constant flow of publications which survey the discipline of linguistics in its various stages of development. It attempts to offer a comprehensive coverage of general accounts of the history of linguistic thought in the western world over the last 150 years.
Author : Daniel Eilon
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,61 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780874133912
An understanding of the linguistic, political, and moral ramifications of Private Spirit (the parochialism and partiality typical of clubs, parties, and cabals) provides insights into the logic behind Swiftian polemic and satire. Swiftian satire, an essentially private joke offering exclusive satisfaction to an elite fraternity of insiders, is shown to be a creative rhetorical adaption of private spirit.
Author : Avi Lifschitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,96 MB
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0199661669
Highlights the importance of language in the social theory, epistemology, and aesthetics of the Enlightenment. Argues that awareness of the historicity and linguistic rootedness of all forms of life was a mainstream Enlightenment notion rather than a feature of the so-called 'Counter-Enlightenment'.