This article analyses some seventeenth-century tales of extraordinary voyages, which aimed to reconstruct the primitive language of Adam that was spoken all over the world before the biblical curse of Babel. The model that inspired these utopic travels was the Chinese language, specially the false belief that it was a musical language and represented the world perfectly. In the eighteenth, the utopia of a language of Adam was gradually abandoned, being replaced by an awareness of the wealth of variation among the languages. At the end of this century, after the consolidation of comparative methodology, the ancient utopian dream of the imago mundi disappeared completely, giving way to the construction of languages whose purpose was practical...
L’Europe de la Renaissance et de l’Âge classique a été le terrain d’une quête protéiforme de la lang...
La creación de un lenguaje universal, preocupación de la Royal Society de Londres hacia 1660, fue re...
This work analyses the constructed rational languages that appear in two utopian novels of the seven...
Este trabajo analiza algunos relatos de viajes extraordinarios de los siglos XVII y XVIII cuyo objet...
El trabajo analiza algunos relatos de viajes extraordinarios de los siglos XVII y XVIII cuyo objetiv...
This article is a historical overview of artificial languages. It mentions in greater or lesser deta...
In this paper we analyse the invented languages that appear in several Christmas carols from the XV...
The teaching of foreign languages is something that has always been present in the course of history...
At the beginning of the seventeenth century, the Chinese empire was open to mendicant orders thanks ...
Teaching Spanish as a foreign language reaches its maximum spreading in the sixteenth century. The p...
In this article we analyze the Jesuit missionaries' investigation of Chinese writing during the 6...
Cet article explore les relations entre les concepts de língua geral et de « tapuya » (ceux qui ne p...
This article discusses the consequences for the Spanish language of the end of the Spanish colonial ...
Este trabajo intenta definir el lugar y el valor de las lenguas musicales dentro de una investigació...
International audienceThis article studies the presence of dreams in the cultural press of Spain in ...
L’Europe de la Renaissance et de l’Âge classique a été le terrain d’une quête protéiforme de la lang...
La creación de un lenguaje universal, preocupación de la Royal Society de Londres hacia 1660, fue re...
This work analyses the constructed rational languages that appear in two utopian novels of the seven...
Este trabajo analiza algunos relatos de viajes extraordinarios de los siglos XVII y XVIII cuyo objet...
El trabajo analiza algunos relatos de viajes extraordinarios de los siglos XVII y XVIII cuyo objetiv...
This article is a historical overview of artificial languages. It mentions in greater or lesser deta...
In this paper we analyse the invented languages that appear in several Christmas carols from the XV...
The teaching of foreign languages is something that has always been present in the course of history...
At the beginning of the seventeenth century, the Chinese empire was open to mendicant orders thanks ...
Teaching Spanish as a foreign language reaches its maximum spreading in the sixteenth century. The p...
In this article we analyze the Jesuit missionaries' investigation of Chinese writing during the 6...
Cet article explore les relations entre les concepts de língua geral et de « tapuya » (ceux qui ne p...
This article discusses the consequences for the Spanish language of the end of the Spanish colonial ...
Este trabajo intenta definir el lugar y el valor de las lenguas musicales dentro de una investigació...
International audienceThis article studies the presence of dreams in the cultural press of Spain in ...
L’Europe de la Renaissance et de l’Âge classique a été le terrain d’une quête protéiforme de la lang...
La creación de un lenguaje universal, preocupación de la Royal Society de Londres hacia 1660, fue re...
This work analyses the constructed rational languages that appear in two utopian novels of the seven...