"Trade book on the history of imaginary languages by a French linguist who was one of the first to write on the topic and to popularize linguistics for a general and literary audience"--
"Trade book on the history of imaginary languages by a French linguist who was one of the first to write on the topic and to popularize linguistics for a general and literary audience"--
Preface ix Foreword: The Love of Language xi Part I: From Myth to Utopia 1 1 From Austral to Astral Voyages: Foundational Myths 3 2 The Dreamer Dreaming: Profiles in Logophilia 17 3 The Dream of the Dreamer's Rib: Female Bodies, Male Science 29 Part II: In the Course of Time (The Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century) 37 4 The Unfinished Quest: The Search for an Ideal Language in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 39 5 Science Against Fiction: The March Toward Positive Fact 53 6 Utopia in Action: The Ascent of International Auxiliary Languages 71 7 Myth at the Heart of Science: Modern Linguistic Theories as Reflected in Science Fiction 89 Part III: Two Poles of Linguistic Fantasy 109 8 The Emperor's New Clothes: The Case of Nikolai Marr 111 9 The Queen of the Night: Language and the Unconscious--Spiritualist and Religious Glossolalia 131 Part IV: The Defense and Illustration of Natural Languages 165 10 Sleeping Beauty at Rest: Artificial Languages, Prisons of the Mind 167 11 Opposing Forces 177 Appendix 1: Synoptic Table 183 Appendix 2: Selected Texts 187 Notes 283 Bibliography 307
Preface ix Foreword: The Love of Language xi Part I: From Myth to Utopia 1 1 From Austral to Astral Voyages: Foundational Myths 3 2 The Dreamer Dreaming: Profiles in Logophilia 17 3 The Dream of the Dreamer's Rib: Female Bodies, Male Science 29 Part II: In the Course of Time (The Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century) 37 4 The Unfinished Quest: The Search for an Ideal Language in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 39 5 Science Against Fiction: The March Toward Positive Fact 53 6 Utopia in Action: The Ascent of International Auxiliary Languages 71 7 Myth at the Heart of Science: Modern Linguistic Theories as Reflected in Science Fiction 89 Part III: Two Poles of Linguistic Fantasy 109 8 The Emperor's New Clothes: The Case of Nikolai Marr 111 9 The Queen of the Night: Language and the Unconscious--Spiritualist and Religious Glossolalia 131 Part IV: The Defense and Illustration of Natural Languages 165 10 Sleeping Beauty at Rest: Artificial Languages, Prisons of the Mind 167 11 Opposing Forces 177 Appendix 1: Synoptic Table 183 Appendix 2: Selected Texts 187 Notes 283 Bibliography 307
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