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A Revolution in Language: The Problem of Signs in Late Eighteenth-Century France

A Revolution in Language: The Problem of Signs in Late Eighteenth-Century France

Rosenfeld, Sophia

Paperback

LinguisticsFrench HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0804749310
ISBN13: 9780804749312
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Jan 15 2004
Pages: 424
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.98
Language: English

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.

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