Author: Cave BeckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
The Universal Character
Author: Cave BeckThe Universal Character, by which All the Nations in the World May Understand One Anothers Conceptions, Reading Out of One Common Writing Their Own Mother Tongues, Etc
Author: Cave BECKThe universal character
Author: Cave BeckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language, Universal
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
The Universal Character
Author: Cave BeckThe Universal Character, by which All the Nations in the World May Understand
Author: Cave BeckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language, Universal
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
The universal character, by which all the nations in the world may understand one anothers conceptions, reading out of one common writing their own mother tongue
Author: Cave BeckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language, Universal
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
THE UNIVERSAL CHARACTER, BY WHICH ALL THE NATIONS IN THE WORLD MAY UNDERSTAND ONE ANOTHERS CONCEPTIONS, READING OUT OF ONE COMMON WRITING THEIR OWN MOTHER TONGUES : AN INVENTION ..
Author: Cave BeckJohn Wilkins and 17th-century British Linguistics
Author: Joseph L. SubbiondoPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027245541
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
In 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.
The Study of Language in 17th-Century England
Author: Vivian SalmonPublisher: 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’.
The Letter and the Cosmos
Author: Laurence de LoozePublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442624124
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
From our first ABCs to the Book of Revelation’s statement that Jesus is “the Alpha and Omega,” we see the world through our letters. More than just a way of writing, the alphabet is a powerful concept that has shaped Western civilization and our daily lives. In The Letter and the Cosmos, Laurence de Looze probes that influence, showing how the alphabet has served as a lens through which we conceptualize the world and how the world, and sometimes the whole cosmos, has been perceived as a kind of alphabet itself. Beginning with the ancient Greeks, he traces the use of alphabetic letters and their significance from Plato to postmodernism, offering a fascinating tour through Western history. A sharp and entertaining examination of how languages, letterforms, orthography, and writing tools have reflected our hidden obsession with the alphabet, The Letter and the Cosmos is illustrated with copious examples of the visual and linguistic phenomena which de Looze describes. Read it, and you’ll never look at the alphabet the same way again.