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Les Langues imaginaires

Author : Marina Yaguello
Publisher : Média Diffusion
ISBN 13 : 2021420930
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Les Langues imaginaires written by Marina Yaguello and published by Média Diffusion. This book was released on 2019-08-29T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les hommes ne se contentent pas de parler les langues, ils les rêvent aussi ; et ces rêves prennent des formes diverses : quête chimérique d'une langue primitive mythique (la lingua adamica) ; création utopique d'une langue parfaite, expression pure de la pensée, ou encore de langues universelles que parleront les sociétés idéales de l'avenir ; innombrables fictions proposant des langues imaginaires se situant en des temps ou des espaces lointains ; fantasmes enfin des spirites et des sectes fondamentalistes qui croient communiquer avec les autres mondes ou parler le langage des anges. C'est de tous ces rêves, dont certains ont tourné au cauchemar, que Marina Yaguello fait ici l'histoire, rêves qui contredisent l'Histoire mais s'y intègrent, qui s'opposent à la science mais la rejoignent aujourd'hui à travers la théorie des universaux du langage.

Langues imaginaires et imaginaire de la langue

Author : Collectif
Publisher : Librairie Droz
ISBN 13 : 260035851X
Total Pages : 1636 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Langues imaginaires et imaginaire de la langue written by Collectif and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 1636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placée sous le signe de l’Utopia de Thomas More (1516) dont on vient de célébrer le demi-millénaire, cette offrande littéraire se veut un plaidoyer pour une « linguistique-fiction ». Faisant la part belle à la cryptographie (les « mots sous les mots ») ou aux glossolalies, écrivains, philosophes, linguistes voire psychiatres ont toujours rêvé, depuis la Renaissance, d’un alphabet qui organiserait aussi bien le monde des choses que l’univers des pensées, quand ils n’ont pas imaginé des hyperlangues, des langues hybrides ou encore des langues utopiques ou uglossies relevant de la fiction ethnographique. Les auteurs rassemblés dans ce volume rappellent aussi que, de l’Amérique à l’Europe orientale, un imaginaire des origines n’a cessé de vouloir démontrer la parenté entre les langues en recourant à des modèles identitaires tant bibliques que classiques. La musique n’est pas oubliée dans ce concert de fantasmagories langagières de même que les performances théâtrales de Valère Novarina.

Les langues imaginaires

Author : Marina Yaguello
Publisher : Seuil
ISBN 13 : 9782020823647
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book Les langues imaginaires written by Marina Yaguello and published by Seuil. This book was released on 2006 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les hommes ne se contentent pas de parler les langues, ils les rêvent aussi ; et ces rêves prennent des formes diverses : quête chimérique d'une langue primitive mythique (la lingua adamica) ; création utopique d'une langue parfaite, expression pure de la pensée, ou encore de langues universelles que parleront les sociétés idéales de l'avenir ; innombrables fictions proposant des langues imaginaires se situant en des temps ou des espaces lointains ; fantasmes enfin des spirites et des sectes fondamentalistes qui croient communiquer avec les autres mondes ou parler le langage des anges. C'est de tous ces rêves, dont certains ont tourné au cauchemar, que Marina Yaguello fait ici l'histoire, rêves qui contredisent l'Histoire mais s'y intègrent, qui s'opposent à la science mais la rejoignent aujourd'hui à travers la théorie des universaux du langage.

Les fous du langage

Author : Marina Yaguello
Publisher : Seuil
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Les fous du langage written by Marina Yaguello and published by Seuil. This book was released on 1984 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

L'IMAGINAIRE DES LANGUES

Author : Marie Dollé
Publisher : Editions L'Harmattan
ISBN 13 : 2296278574
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book L'IMAGINAIRE DES LANGUES written by Marie Dollé and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notre identité se trouve-t-elle liée à la langue que nous avons apprise dans l'enfance ? Celui qui, par choix ou par nécessité, quitte son pays devient-il pour autant différent ? L'imaginaire des langues explore les réponses que des écrivains donnent à ces questions : ceux qui, comme S. Beckett, passent d'une langue à l'autre ; les " transfuges " qui, comme Cioran abandonnent leur langue pour en adopter une nouvelle, ceux qui comme Claude Ollier, font résonner une autre langue (ici l'arabe) dans leurs écrits. Pourquoi choisit-on une langue plutôt qu'une autre ?

Imaginary Languages

Author : Marina Yaguello
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262547155
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Imaginary Languages written by Marina Yaguello and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the practice of inventing languages, from speaking in tongues to utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries of modern linguistics. In Imaginary Languages, Marina Yaguello explores the history and practice of inventing languages, from religious speaking in tongues to politically utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries of modern linguistics. She looks for imagined languages that are autonomous systems, complete unto themselves and meant for communal use; imaginary, and therefore unlike both natural languages and historically attested languages; and products of an individual effort to lay hold of language. Inventors of languages, Yaguello writes, are madly in love: they love an object that belongs to them only to the extent that they also share it with a community. Yaguello investigates the sources of imaginary languages, in myths, dreams, and utopias. She takes readers on a tour of languages invented in literature from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, including that in More’s Utopia, Leibniz’s “algebra of thought,” and Bulwer-Lytton’s linguistic fiction. She examines the linguistic fantasies (or madness) of Georgian linguist Nikolai Marr and Swiss medium Hélène Smith; and considers the quest for the true philosophical language. Yaguello finds two abiding (and somewhat contradictory) forces: the diversity of linguistic experience, which stands opposed to unifying endeavors, and, on the other hand, features shared by all languages (natural or not) and their users, which justifies the universalist hypothesis. Recent years have seen something of a boom in invented languages, whether artificial languages meant to facilitate international communication or imagined languages constructed as part of science fiction worlds. In Imaginary Languages (an updated and expanded version of the earlier Les Fous du langage, published in English as Lunatic Lovers of Language), Yaguello shows that the invention of language is above all a passionate, dizzying labor of love.

The Search for the Perfect Language

Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0631205101
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book The Search for the Perfect Language written by Umberto Eco and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1997-04-08 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that there once existed a language which perfectly and unambiguously expressed the essence of all possible things and concepts has occupied the minds of philosophers, theologians, mystics and others for at least two millennia. This is an investigation into the history of that idea and of its profound influence on European thought, culture and history. From the early Dark Ages to the Renaissance it was widely believed that the language spoken in the Garden of Eden was just such a language, and that all current languages were its decadent descendants from the catastrophe of the Fall and at Babel. The recovery of that language would, for theologians, express the nature of divinity, for cabbalists allow access to hidden knowledge and power, and for philosophers reveal the nature of truth. Versions of these ideas remained current in the Enlightenment, and have recently received fresh impetus in attempts to create a natural language for artificial intelligence. The story that Umberto Eco tells ranges widely from the writings of Augustine, Dante, Descartes and Rousseau, arcane treatises on cabbalism and magic, to the history of the study of language and its origins. He demonstrates the initimate relation between language and identity and describes, for example, how and why the Irish, English, Germans and Swedes - one of whom presented God talking in Swedish to Adam, who replied in Danish, while the serpent tempted Eve in French - have variously claimed their language as closest to the original. He also shows how the late eighteenth-century discovery of a proto-language (Indo-European) for the Aryan peoples was perverted to support notions of racial superiority. To this subtle exposition of a history of extraordinary complexity, Umberto Eco links the associated history of the manner in which the sounds of language and concepts have been written and symbolized. Lucidly and wittily written, the book is, in sum, a tour de force of scholarly detection and cultural interpretation, providing a series of original perspectives on two thousand years of European History. The paperback edition of this book is not available through Blackwell outside of North America.

Dictionnaire des langues imaginaires

Author : Paolo Albani
Publisher : Belles Lettres
ISBN 13 : 9782251443997
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Dictionnaire des langues imaginaires written by Paolo Albani and published by Belles Lettres. This book was released on 2010 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Un dictionnaire des langues imaginaires est un etrange corpus: sans limites chronologiques ni geographiques, il s'interesse aux langues qui, a la difference des langues dites naturelles, ne nous sont pas apprises par nos parents. Le phenomene des langues imaginaires inclut aussi bien langues sacrees (glossolalie, langages mystiques ou extatiques, langage des chamans etc.) que profanes, les langues universelles comme l'Esperanto et le Volapuk, les pasigraphies et pasilalies, ou celles a finalite purement expressive: les langues enfantines, les langues des fous litteraires, les langues des mediums, les langues artistico-litteraires (poesie, theatre, cinema, bande dessinee), les langues fantastiques, celles de la science-fiction, les langues experimentales (Zaum, Dada, le lettrisme) Les 500 auteurs cites vont d'Aristophane (405 av. J.-C.) a Harry Harrison (1988), en passant par Rabelais, Thomas More, Folengo, Jakob Bohme, Kircher, Swift, Holberg, Couturat, Leau, Tzara, Kandinsky, Joyce, Borges, Artaud, Queneau, Isou, Dario Fo... Les grands theoriciens des divers projets de langue parfaite des XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles (Leibniz, Wilkins, Schott...), les inventeurs des langues artificielles des XIXe et XXe siecles (Zamenhof, Schleyer...), les inventeurs de systemes universels (Dalgarno, Delormel, Grosselin, Becher...) ne sont pas oublies.

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Publisher : Odile Jacob
ISBN 13 : 2738180361
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (381 download)

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Archaeologies of the Future

Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1844675386
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book Archaeologies of the Future written by Fredric Jameson and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age of globalization characterized by the dizzying technologies of the First World, and the social disintegration of the Third, is the concept of utopia still meaningful? Archaeologies of the Future, Jameson’s most substantial work since Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, investigates the development of this form since Thomas More, and interrogates the functions of utopian thinking in a post-Communist age. The relationship between utopia and science fiction is explored through the representations of otherness … alien life and alien worlds … and a study of the works of Philip K. Dick, Ursula LeGuin, William Gibson, Brian Aldiss, Kim Stanley Robinson and more. Jameson’s essential essays, including “The Desire Called Utopia,” conclude with an examination of the opposing positions on utopia and an assessment of its political value today.

For East is East

Author : Wojciech Skalmowski
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789042912984
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book For East is East written by Wojciech Skalmowski and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The liber amicorum is a collection of 40 articles written by Polish, Russian, Belgian and French philologists about the themes of the jubilarian's interests and academic research: general linguistics, comparatism and etymology, relations between Poland and the World, modern Polish literature, Russian literature and culture (18-20th century). The contributions are representative for the varied horizon of historical, linguistic, literary and cultural interests of Prof. Skalmowski.

A Revolution in Language

Author : Sophia A. Rosenfeld
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804749312
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book A Revolution in Language written by Sophia A. Rosenfeld and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship between the ideas of the Enlightenment and the culture and ideology of the French Revolution? This book takes up that classic question by concentrating on changing conceptions of language and, especially, signs during the second half of the eighteenth century. The author traces, first, the emergence of a new interest in the possibility of gestural communication within the philosophy, theater, and pedagogy of the last decades of the Old Regime. She then explores the varied uses and significance of a variety of semiotic experiments, including the development of a sign language for the deaf, within the language politics of the Revolution. A Revolution in Language shows not only that many key revolutionary thinkers were unusually preoccupied by questions of language, but also that prevailing assumptions about words and other signs profoundly shaped revolutionaries' efforts to imagine and to institute an ideal polity between 1789 and the start of the new century. This book reveals the links between Enlightenment epistemology and the development of modern French political culture.

Futurescapes

Author : Ralph Pordzik
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042026022
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Futurescapes written by Ralph Pordzik and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book testifies to the growing interest in the many spaces of utopia. It intends to 'map out' on utopian and science-fiction discourses some of the new and revisionist models of spatial analysis applied in Literary and Cultural Studies in recent years. The aim of the volume is to side-step the established generic binary of utopia and dystopia or science fiction and thus to open the analysis of utopian literature to new lines of inquiry. The essays collected here propose to think of utopias not so much as fictional texts about future change and transformation but as vital elements in a cultural process through which social, spatial and subjective identities are formed. Utopias can thus be read as textual systems implying a distinct spatial and temporal dimension; as 'spatial practices' that tend to naturalize a cultural and social construction - that of the 'good life', the radically improved welfare state, the Christian paradise, the counter-society, etc. - and make that representation operational by interpellating their readers in some determinate relation to their givenness as sites of political and individual improvement. This volume is of interest for all scholars and students of literature who wish to explore the ways in which utopias of the past and recent present have circulated as media of cultural exchange and homogenization, as sites of cultural and linguistic appropriation and as foci for the spatial formation of national and regional identities in the English-speaking world.

The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books

Author : Edward Wilson-Lee
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 1982111402
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books written by Edward Wilson-Lee and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This impeccably researched and “adventure-packed” (The Washington Post) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus’s son to create the greatest library in the world is “the stuff of Hollywood blockbusters” (NPR) and offers a vivid picture of Europe on the verge of becoming modern. At the peak of the Age of Exploration, Hernando Colón sailed with his father Christopher Columbus on his final voyage to the New World, a journey that ended in disaster, bloody mutiny, and shipwreck. After Columbus’s death in 1506, eighteen-year-old Hernando sought to continue—and surpass—his father’s campaign to explore the boundaries of the known world by building a library that would collect everything ever printed: a vast holding organized by summaries and catalogues; really, the first ever database for the exploding diversity of written matter as the printing press proliferated across Europe. Hernando traveled extensively and obsessively amassed his collection based on the groundbreaking conviction that a library of universal knowledge should include “all books, in all languages and on all subjects,” even material often dismissed: ballads, erotica, news pamphlets, almanacs, popular images, romances, fables. The loss of part of his collection to another maritime disaster in 1522, set off the final scramble to complete this sublime project, a race against time to realize a vision of near-impossible perfection. “Magnificent…a thrill on almost every page” (The New York Times Book Review), The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books is a window into sixteenth-century Europe’s information revolution, and a reflection of the passion and intrigues that lie beneath our own insatiable desires to bring order to the world today.

Renaissance Utopias and the Problem of History

Author : Marina Leslie
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501745263
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Utopias and the Problem of History written by Marina Leslie and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marina Leslie draws on three important early modern utopian texts—Thomas More's Utopia, Francis Bacon's New Atlantis, and Margaret Cavendish's Description of a New World Called the Blazing World—as a means of exploring models for historical transformation and of addressing the relationship of literature and history in contemporary critical practice. While the genre of utopian texts is a fertile terrain for historicist readings, Leslie demonstrates that utopia provides unstable ground for charting out the relation of literary text to historical context. In particular, she examines the ways that both Marxist and new historicist critics have taken the literary utopia not simply as one form among many available for reading historically but as a privileged form or methodological paradigm. Rather than approach utopia by mapping out a fixed set of formal features, or by tracing the development of the genre, Leslie elaborates a history of utopia as critical practice. Moreover, by taking every reading of utopia to be as historically symptomatic as the literary production it assesses, her book integrates readings of these three English Renaissance utopias with an analysis of the history and politics of reading utopia. Throughout, Leslie considers utopia as a fictional enactment of historical process and method. In her view, these early modern utopian constructions of history relate very closely to and impinge upon the narrative structures of history assumed by critical theory today.

Entanglements of the Maghreb

Author : Julius Dihstelhoff
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839452775
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Entanglements of the Maghreb written by Julius Dihstelhoff and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impulse for the recent transformations in the Arab world came from the Maghreb. Research on the region has been on the rise since, yet much remains to be done when it comes to interdisciplinary comparative research. The Maghreb is a heterogeneous region that deserves thorough investigation. This volume focuses on Entanglements as a cross-field and cross-lingual concept to generate a new approach to the region and its inner interdependencies as well as exchanges with other regions. Eminent researchers conceptualize Entanglements through the description of various thematic fields and actors in motion, addressing culture, politics, social affairs, and economics.

Language and the History of Thought

Author : Nancy S. Struever
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781878822291
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book Language and the History of Thought written by Nancy S. Struever and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1995 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 17 essays discussing the role of language in the history of western thought. Since Adam before the Fall named the animals by true insight into their essences, language has never ceased to be the pivot of efforts to understand human nature and our capacity to feel at home in the twin worlds of nature and society. This volume brings together seventeen essays that have appeared in the Journal of the History of Ideasover the last thirty years. Their common theme is the role of language in aspects of the history of western thought from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. The essays cover questions in epistemology, religion, anthropology, lexicography, evolution, the theory of signs, and the origin of language. Contributors: FRANK L. BORCHARDT, MARGRETA DE GRAZIA, SIDONIE CLAUSS, JAN MIEL, THOMAS C.SINGER, VICTOR ANTHONY RUDOWSKI, JULES PAUL SEIGEL, JAMES McLAVERTY, J.R. KNOWLSON, STEPHEN K. LAND, LIA FORMIGARI, H.J. JACKSON, W. JAY REEDY, V.P. BYNACK, CYMBRE QUINCYRAUB, MICHAEL SPRINKER, S. MORRIS ENGEL.