Volapük, Or, Universal Language PDF Download

Author: Alfred Kirchhoff
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Category : Language, Universal
Languages : en
Pages : 94

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Author: Andrew Drummond
Publisher: Birlinn Publishers
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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In April 1891, two matters greatly excite the inhabitants of Edinburgh: the decennial Population Census and the Annual General Meeting of the Edinburgh Society for the Propagation of a Universal Language. The General Secretary, Mr Justice, is a militant champion of the highly popular language Volapk; but he is locked in a battle for with Dr Bosman, a shameless apologist for Esperanto. Mr Justice travels the east coast of Scotland in part conducting classes in the grammar and vocabulary of Volapk. En route, he recruits a secret ally an ill-behaved old gentleman who has promised to bring the majority over to the Volapk camp.

Author: Johann Martin Schleyer
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 442

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Author: Humphrey Tonkin
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761808473
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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A collection of 11 papers, one in German, and an interview in French with Umberto Eco. The topics include the term planned language, Esperanto as a unique model for general linguistics, a dialogue between sociolinguistic sciences and Esperanto culture, the experience of Esperanto in developing a language for international law, and machine translation. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Author: Klas August Linderfelt
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Category : Volapük
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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Author: Alexander John Ellis
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Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Author: Michael D. Gordin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022600032X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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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.

Author: Marshall William Wood
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Author: Roberto Garvia
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812291271
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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The problems of international communication and linguistic rights are recurring debates in the present-day age of globalization. But the debate truly began over a hundred years ago, when the increasingly interconnected world of the nineteenth century fostered a desire for the development of a global lingua franca. Many individuals and social movements competed to create an artificial language unencumbered by the political rivalries that accompanied English, German, and French. Organizations including the American Philosophical Society, the International Association of Academies, the International Peace Bureau, the Comintern, and the League of Nations intervened in the debate about the possibility of an artificial language, but of the numerous tongues created before World War II, only Esperanto survives today. Esperanto and Its Rivals sheds light on the factors that led almost all artificial languages to fail and helped English to prevail as the global tongue of the twenty-first century. Exploring the social and political contexts of the three most prominent artificial languages—Volapük, Esperanto, and Ido—Roberto Garvía examines the roles played by social movement leaders and inventors, the strategies different organizations used to lobby for each language, and other early decisions that shaped how those languages spread and evolved. Through the rise and fall of these artificial languages, Esperanto and Its Rivals reveals the intellectual dilemmas and political anxieties that troubled the globalizing world at the turn of the twentieth century.

Author: Klas August Linderfelt
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Category : Volapük
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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