Universal language schemes in England and France 1600-1800
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Universal language schemes in England and France 1600-1800

  1. 316 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Universal language schemes in England and France 1600-1800

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This wide-ranging book focuses upon the role thatLatin was thought an ideal, universal, constructed language would play in the advancement of learning.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Illustrations
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. 1. A language of real characters: the intellectual background
  6. 2. Early schemes for a common writing
  7. 3. The philosophical language
  8. 4. Ideal languages in the imaginary voyage
  9. 5. The eighteenth century: origins of language, general grammar, and a universal language
  10. 6. Pasigraphy in the 1970s
  11. 7. Signs and thought
  12. 8. The Idéologues and the perfect language
  13. Appendix A. Gesture as a form of universal language
  14. Appendix B. Checklist of schemes of universal writing and language in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index
  18. UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ROMANCE SERIES