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Publication details [#18445]

Eco, Umberto. 1995. The search for the perfect language. (The Making of Europe series). Blackwell Publishers. xii + 385 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
communicative efficiency
Language as a subject
Dutch | Egyptian | English | Esperanto | French | German | Hebrew | Languages, artificial | Languages, Indo-European | Languages, magical | Languages, secret
Person as a subject
Bacon, J. | Comenius | Dalgarno | Dante | Dee, J. | Descartes, R. | Jones, W. | Kircher | Leibniz, G.W. | Lodwick | Lull | Mersenne | Wilkins

Annotation

A historical exposition of the most influential projects in the failing European search for a common language, including: languages proposed as original or mystically perfect, reconstructed languages, artificial languages and secret and magical languages.

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