Explores how Victorian fiction and science imagined the evolution of language, from primordial noise to modern English.
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Will Abberley is a research fellow for the Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford, exploring concepts of natural mimicry and deception in Victorian literature and the life sciences.
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Victorian science changed language from a tool into a natural phenomenon, evolving independently of its speakers. Will Abberley explores how science and fiction interacted in imagining different stories of language evolution. Popular narratives of language progress clashed with others of decay and degeneration. Furthermore, the blurring of language evolution with biological evolution encouraged Victorians to re-imagine language as a mixture of social convention and primordial instinct. Abberley argues that fiction by authors such as Charles Kingsley, Thomas Hardy and H. G. Wells not only reflected these intellectual currents, but also helped to shape them. Genres from utopia to historical romance supplied narrative models for generating thought experiments in the possible pasts and futures of language. Equally, fiction that explored the instinctive roots of language intervened in debates about language standardisation and scientific objectivity. These textual readings offer new perspectives on twenty-first-century discussions about language evolution and the language of science. Artikel-Nr. 9781107101166
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Zustand: New. Explores how Victorian fiction and science imagined the evolution of language, from primordial noise to modern English. Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture. Num Pages: 247 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 504. . 2015. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Artikel-Nr. V9781107101166
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