Author: Albert Léon GuérardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A Short History of the International Language Movement
Author: Albert Léon GuérardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A Short History of the International Language Movement
Author: Albert Léon GuérardA Short History of the International Language Movement
Author: Albert Léon GuérardPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330397695
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Excerpt from A Short History of the International Language Movement The world, in this third decade of the twentieth century, offers a tragic contrast. On the one hand, material obstacles between the remotest parts of the earth are fast crumbling down. On the other, there have never been deeper chasms between race and race, or between nation and nation. Science is universal in its principles and in its results, cosmopolitan in its personnel, international in its activities. It would be ludicrous to speak of "French astronomy" or "American mathematics." The applications of science to industry have radically transformed the conditions of life. The world is larger to-day than it was a hundred years ago, and infinitely more complex; but it is also infinitely more cohesive. The heart of Asia, Africa, South America, can now be reached in a railroad car; intelligence is flashed from continent to continent in less time than, a century ago, news could be carried by the swiftest messenger to a neighbouring city. Thus the interdependence or solidarity of nations has become an actual fact rather than an ideal. Railroads, steamships, telegraphs, wireless stations, have made the whole world immediately sensitive to everything that happens anywhere on its surface: they have created a universal consciousness - the inevitable forerunner of a universal conscience. These considerations are commonplace enough: we trust that their natural consequences will seem no less obvious. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Short History of the International Language Movement
Author: Albert Leon GuerardPublisher:
ISBN: 9780742690004
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A Short History of the International Language Movement
Author: Albert L'On Gu'rardPublisher: Sagwan Press
ISBN: 9781340239299
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
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The International Language Movement
Author: Mark GarnerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780485112863
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Scientific Babel
Author: Michael D. GordinPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022600029X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
English is the language of science today. No matter which languages you know, if you want your work seen, studied, and cited, you need to publish in English. But that hasn’t always been the case. Though there was a time when Latin dominated the field, for centuries science has been a polyglot enterprise, conducted in a number of languages whose importance waxed and waned over time—until the rise of English in the twentieth century. So how did we get from there to here? How did French, German, Latin, Russian, and even Esperanto give way to English? And what can we reconstruct of the experience of doing science in the polyglot past? With Scientific Babel, Michael D. Gordin resurrects that lost world, in part through an ingenious mechanism: the pages of his highly readable narrative account teem with footnotes—not offering background information, but presenting quoted material in its original language. The result is stunning: as we read about the rise and fall of languages, driven by politics, war, economics, and institutions, we actually see it happen in the ever-changing web of multilingual examples. The history of science, and of English as its dominant language, comes to life, and brings with it a new understanding not only of the frictions generated by a scientific community that spoke in many often mutually unintelligible voices, but also of the possibilities of the polyglot, and the losses that the dominance of English entails. Few historians of science write as well as Gordin, and Scientific Babel reveals his incredible command of the literature, language, and intellectual essence of science past and present. No reader who takes this linguistic journey with him will be disappointed.
International Language
Author: Otto JespersenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135662673
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This book was first published in 1929, International Language is a valuable contribution to the field of English Language and Linguistics.
The International Journal of Psycho-analysis
Author: Ernest JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Include abstracts and book reviews.
American Journal of Philology
Author: Basil Lanneau GildersleevePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Each number includes "Reviews and book notices."