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Author: Andrew Drummond Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 215
Book Description
The 'Universal Character' by Cave Beck, M.A., schoolmaster of Ipswich, was printed in 1657. It was a very early attempt at a language "by which all the Nations in the World may understand one another". His new language was simple in design, but more than a little odd in execution. Every page of his 8,000-word dictionary holds little gems of long-forgotten English - 'adust', 'an ouche collar' ,'a gammot or incision knife', 'the brayne tunnel'; not forgetting of course 'the night mare - a disease'.Despite its quirkiness - and the slapdash efforts of the printer - Beck's Universal Character is still considered important as oneof the first of its kind in Europe.The work has now been transcribed from the original publication, complete with all the author's oversights and the printer's mistakes. A foreword places Beck's work in context, explaining its structure and contents. Anyone interested in the 17th century will find here a gold-mine of words and underlying thoughts
Author: Andrew Drummond Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 215
Book Description
The 'Universal Character' by Cave Beck, M.A., schoolmaster of Ipswich, was printed in 1657. It was a very early attempt at a language "by which all the Nations in the World may understand one another". His new language was simple in design, but more than a little odd in execution. Every page of his 8,000-word dictionary holds little gems of long-forgotten English - 'adust', 'an ouche collar' ,'a gammot or incision knife', 'the brayne tunnel'; not forgetting of course 'the night mare - a disease'.Despite its quirkiness - and the slapdash efforts of the printer - Beck's Universal Character is still considered important as oneof the first of its kind in Europe.The work has now been transcribed from the original publication, complete with all the author's oversights and the printer's mistakes. A foreword places Beck's work in context, explaining its structure and contents. Anyone interested in the 17th century will find here a gold-mine of words and underlying thoughts
Author: Sarah Rivett Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 0807838705 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 381
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The Science of the Soul challenges long-standing notions of Puritan provincialism as antithetical to the Enlightenment. Sarah Rivett demonstrates that, instead, empiricism and natural philosophy combined with Puritanism to transform the scope of religious activity in colonial New England from the 1630s to the Great Awakening of the 1740s. In an unprecedented move, Puritan ministers from Thomas Shepard and John Eliot to Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards studied the human soul using the same systematic methods that philosophers applied to the study of nature. In particular, they considered the testimonies of tortured adolescent girls at the center of the Salem witch trials, Native American converts, and dying women as a source of material insight into the divine. Conversions and deathbed speeches were thus scrutinized for evidence of grace in a way that bridged the material and the spiritual, the visible and the invisible, the worldly and the divine. In this way, the "science of the soul" was as much a part of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century natural philosophy as it was part of post-Reformation theology. Rivett's account restores the unity of religion and science in the early modern world and highlights the role and importance of both to transatlantic circuits of knowledge formation.
Author: Matthew Cohen Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 0803254415 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 479
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In colonial North and South America, print was only one way of communicating. Information in various forms flowed across the boundaries between indigenous groups and early imperial settlements. Natives and newcomers made speeches, exchanged gifts, invented gestures, and inscribed their intentions on paper, bark, skins, and many other kinds of surfaces. No one method of conveying meaning was privileged, and written texts often relied on nonwritten modes of communication. Colonial Mediascapes examines how textual and nontextual literatures interacted in colonial North and South America. Extending the textual foundations of early American literary history, the editors bring a wide range of media to the attention of scholars and show how struggles over modes of communication intersected with conflicts over religion, politics, race, and gender. This collection of essays by major historians, anthropologists, and literary scholars demonstrates that the European settlement of the Americas and European interaction with Native peoples were shaped just as much by communication challenges as by traditional concerns such as religion, economics, and resources.
Author: Vivian Salmon Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing ISBN: 9027286116 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 246
Book Description
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: Barbara J. Shapiro Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520332016 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 344
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This 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.
Author: David B. Paxman Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351874152 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 448
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In this new study, author David Paxman demonstrates that ordinary spatial concepts, together with the changing sense of the earth's space brought about by exploration, navigation, and mapping exerted a strong influence on linguistic thought. Paxman illuminates how our thinking about language as a whole, as well as our exploration of languages, developed in ways parallel to our thinking about and exploration of the space we live in, our planet. To the factors to which scholars have generally attributed language thought in the early modern period-the refinement of tools in phonetics, grammar and linguistic history, and the increasing exposure to diverse languages as the world was explored and colonized-Paxman here adds another: spatial exploration and the novel application of spatial concepts. He suggests that language was an unfamiliar space that Europe entered and navigated, facing challenges similar to those posed by terrestrial navigation. He argues that spatial experience influenced linguistic thought in two ways. First, ordinary spatial experience-terrain and boundaries, near and far, journeys and paths, etc.-provided conceptual structures, often novel or inventive, that guided those who investigated the properties of language. Second, expanding horizons, the sense of terrestrial space, and recognition of the difficulties of representing and navigating a spherical earth contributed directly to language thought by offering conceptual structures applicable to this different and equally challenging domain. While Voyage into Language does contribute to the history of linguistics, more broadly it is a treatment of intellectual and cultural history, and an application of cognitive science to language study of the past. As such, it holds appeal for historians and literary scholars as well as linguists.
Author: Andrew Drummond
Author: Andrew Drummond
Author: Cave Beck
Author: Sarah Rivett
Author: Matthew Cohen
Author: Vivian Salmon
Author: Paul Cornelius
Author: Barbara J. Shapiro
Author: Edward GROVES
Author: David B. Paxman
Author: Mirko Tavoni