Author: Cave BeckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
The universal character, by which all the nations in the world may understand one anothers conceptions
Author: Cave BeckUniversal Character by Which All Nations in the World May Understand One Another's Conceptions
Author: Cave BeckPublisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781497896048
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1657 Edition.
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, Etc
Author: Cave BECKCave Beck - the Universal Character
Author: Andrew DrummondPublisher:
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
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Author: William Carew HazlittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Hand-book to the Popular, Poetical, and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain
Author: William Carew HazlittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Handbook of Semiotics
Author: Winfried NöthPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253116082
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
"This is the most systematic discussion of semiotics yet published." —Choice "A bravura performance." —Thomas Sebeok "Nöth's handbook is an outstanding encyclopedia that provides first-rate information on many facets of sign-related studies, research results, and applications." —Social Sciences in General
Languages in Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth-century Imaginary Voyages
Author: Paul CorneliusPublisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600034715
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
John Wilkins and 17th-Century British Linguistics
Author: Joseph L. SubbiondoPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027277230
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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’.