A Revolution in Language

A Revolution in Language
Author :
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 428
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0804749310
ISBN-13 : 9780804749312
Rating : 4/5 (312 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Revolution in Language by : Sophia A. Rosenfeld

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.


A Revolution in Language Related Books

A Revolution in Language
Language: en
Pages: 428
Authors: Sophia A. Rosenfeld
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-08-01 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

GET EBOOK

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
The Language Revolution
Language: en
Pages: 152
Authors: David Crystal
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-07-10 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

GET EBOOK

We are living through the consequences of a linguistic revolution. Dramatic linguistic change has left us at the beginning of a new era in the evolution of huma
A Revolution in Language
Language: en
Pages: 482
Authors: Sophia A. Rosenfeld
Categories: France
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

A revolution in language
Language: fr
Pages: 454
Authors: Sophia Anne Rosenfeld
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

Language and Revolution in Burke, Wollstonecraft, Paine, and Godwin
Language: en
Pages: 226
Authors: Jane Hodson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-02 - Publisher: Routledge

GET EBOOK

The Revolution in France of 1789 provoked a major 'pamphlet war' in Britain as writers debated what exactly had happened, why it had happened, and where events