Lunatic Lovers of Language: Imaginary Languages and Their Inventors - Rilegato

Yaguello, Marina

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0485113031 ISBN 13: 9780485113037

Casa editrice: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2000

Riassunto

This book examines the creation of imaginary languages in history and fiction as an expression of the search for an original, primitive or universal language. Its subjects include the philosophers Descartes and Leibnitz, inventing universal, philosophical languages for the promotion of truth and knowledge; novelists from Cyrano de Bergerac to George Orwell, whose fictions include the languages of inhabitants of imaginary worlds; the spiritualist Swedenberg, claiming to "speak with tongues"; the Soviet linguist Nicholas Marr, whose attempts to reconstruct the origin of language were adopted as official Marxist science; and other 20th century linguists such as Chomsky, who have returned full circle to the pursuit of linguistic universals initiated by the French grammarians in the 17th century.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0485113031
• ISBN 13: 9780485113037
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 256