Robert E. Stillman
List of John Benjamins publications for which Robert E. Stillman plays a role.
Articles
2002 In quest of the universal language: Romance and the history of an idea Language Problems and Language Planning 26:3, pp. 299–313 | Miscellaneous
The new English translation of Paolo Rossi’s now classic study, Logic and the Art of Memory, presents a useful opportunity to examine contemporary efforts to understand what its subtitle calls “the quest for a universal language.” At the same time, an old seventeenth-century philosophical romance,… read more
1991 Radical Translation: Cultural Politics and England's Universal Language Movement Babel 37:3, pp. 168–176 | Article
La recherche d'une langue universelle en Angleterre au 17e siècle s'étend des propositions préliminaires de Francis Bacon, philosophe de la "nouvelle science", jusqu'à la création d'une langue philosophique par l'évêque John Wilkins, fondateur principal de la Royal Society. Les languages… read more