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Author: Joseph L. Subbiondo
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9027245541
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this reader, 19 articles have been collected that bring out the central position of John Wilkins and his Essay Toward a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language (1668) in the history of ideas in 17th-century Britain.
Author: Vivian Salmon
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1988-01-01
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9027245355
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: John Wilkins
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Published: 1694
Total Pages: 198
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Katherine Ellison
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-06-10
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1315458209
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile there are many surveys of cryptography, none pay any attention to the volume of manuals that appeared during the seventeenth century, or provide any cultural context for the appearance, design, or significance of the genre during the period.Through close readings of five specific primary texts that have been ignored not only in cryptography scholarship but also in early modern literary, scientific, and historical studies, this book allows us to see one origin of disciplinary division in the popular imagination and in the university, when particular broad fields – the sciences, the mechanical arts, and the liberal arts – came to be viewed as more or less profitable.
Author: James Dougal Fleming
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-10-26
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 331940301X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the seventeenth-century project for a "real" or "universal" character: a scientific and objective code. Focusing on the Essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language (1668) of the polymath John Wilkins, Fleming provides a detailed explanation of how a real character actually was supposed to work. He argues that the period movement should not be understood as a curious episode in the history of language, but as an illuminating avatar of information technology. A non-oral code, supposedly amounting to a script of things, the character was to support scientific discourse through a universal database, in alignment with cosmic truths. In all these ways, J.D. Fleming argues, the world of the character bears phenomenological comparison to the world of modern digital information—what has been called the infosphere.
Author: Miles MacLeod
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-01-29
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1317327497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLanguage is the most essential medium of scientific activity. Many historians, sociologists and science studies scholars have investigated scientific language for this reason, but only few have examined those cases where language itself has become an object of scientific discussion. Over the centuries scientists have sought to control, refine and engineer language for various epistemological, communicative and nationalistic purposes. This book seeks to explore cases in the history of science in which questions or concerns with language have bubbled to the surface in scientific discourse. This opens a window into the particular ways in which scientists have conceived of and construed language as the central medium of their activity across different cultural contexts and places, and the clashes and tensions that have manifested their many attempts to engineer it to both preserve and enrich its function. The subject of language draws out many topics that have mostly been neglected in the history of science, such as the connection between the emergence of national languages and the development of science within national settings, and allows us to connect together historical episodes from many understudied cultural and linguistic venues such as Eastern European and medieval Hebrew science.
Author: Robert E. Stillman
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780838753101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThat saving form of knowledge, as it develops in the lines of linguistic thought that extend from Bacon's Instauration to Wilkins's Philosophical Language, is both a product of and one potent agent in producing the emerging, scientistically designed, modern state.
Author: John Wilkins
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Published: 1668
Total Pages: 484
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Margaret Thomas
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-04-27
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 1136707506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat was the first language, and where did it come from? Do all languages have properties in common? What is the relationship of language to thought? Fifty Key Thinkers on Language and Linguistics explores how fifty of the most influential figures in the field have asked and have responded to classic questions about language. Each entry includes a discussion of the person’s life, work and ideas as well as the historical context and an analysis of his or her lasting contributions. Thinkers include: Aristotle Samuel Johnson Friedrich Max Müller Ferdinand de Saussure Joseph H. Greenberg Noam Chomsky Fully cross-referenced and with useful guides to further reading, this is an ideal introduction to the thinkers who have had a significant impact on the subject of Language and Linguistics.
Author: Barbara J. Shapiro
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2021-05-28
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 0520370562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969.
