The Noblest Animate Motion: Speech, physiology and medicine in pre-Cartesian linguistic thought
Jeffrey Wollock
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 83] 1997. l, 461 pp.
Jeffrey Wollock
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jeffrey Wollock plays a role.
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Subjects History of linguistics | Language disorders & speech pathology | Philosophy
Articles
2013 John Bulwer (1606–1656) and Some British and French Contemporaries Historiographia Linguistica 40:3, pp. 331–376 | Article
John Bulwer’s (1606–1656) work was unknown in 17th–18th century France. In 1827, when Joseph-Marie Degérando (1772–1842) became curious about the relation between the methods respectively of Bulwer and John Wallis (1616–1703), the pioneer oral instructor of the deaf in Britain, he had to query… read more
2011 John Bulwer and the Quest for a Universal Language, 1641–1644 Historiographia Linguistica 38:1/2, pp. 37–84 | Article
A pioneer of the language sciences, John Bulwer (1606–1656) published on universal language at the beginning of the English ‘scientific revolution’. The Comenians, centered in Bulwer’s own city of London and known for open communication, were interested in this subject area; yet Bulwer’s contact… read more
2002 John Bulwer (1606–1656) and the significance of gesture in the 17th-century theories of language and cognition Gesture 2:2, pp. 227–258 | Article
John Bulwer (1606–1656) published five books on the semiotics of the human body, with most attention given to gesture. His ideas on gesture have previously been studied from the standpoint of rhetorical theory, but hardly at all in relation to language and cognition. With regard to the cognitive… read more
1996 John Bulwer’s (1606–1656) place in the history of the Deaf Historiographia Linguistica 23:1/2, pp. 1–46 | Article
It would be unfair to characterize John Bulwer (1606–1656) as a dilettante, although he did not achieve all his goals with the deaf. He tried unsuccessfully to find the Spaniard (described by Kenelm Digby in a report of 1644) who taught speech to deaf pupils. As a Royalist during the reign of… read more