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Author:   Michael M. Isermann
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Weight:   0.818kg
ISBN:  

9789004684843

ISBN 10:   9004684840
Pages:   404
Publication Date:   21 March 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Acknowledgements Notes on the Text List of Figures and Illustrations Introduction: Anachronisms, Pre-concepts and the Alphabetisation of Thought Part 1: Locke and the Alphabetisation of Thought 1 Writing and the Mind  1 The Rise and Fall of Writing  2 Writing, Printing and the Mind  3 The Printing Office and the Mind’s Faculties  4 The Compositor and the Spelling Tradition 2 Orthography and the Mind  1 The Alphabet and the Mind  2 Simple Ideas and the littera  3 Orthoepy and Orthography: a Humanist Prelude  4 Mulcaster and Locke on Common Use  5 Hart, Locke and Spelling Vices 3 The Alphabetisation of Thought  1 Approaching the Alphabetisation of Thought  2 Orthographic Vices and the Alphabetisation of Thought  3 The Stages of Alphabetisation  4 Alphabetisation and the Categories of Change 4 Alphabetisation and the Tradition  1 Locke and Ideas as Signs  2 Writing and the Truth of Ideas  3 Alphabetical Order and Essentialism  4 The Standardisation of Writing Part 2: Practical Routines and Theoretical Framework 5 Thinking, Spelling and Ciphering  1 Marigolds and Violets  2 Simple Ideas and Simple Secrets  3 Cryptography and Orthography  4 Ciphering and the Teaching of Pronunciation  Excursus: the Alphabetisation of Thought and Linguistic Practices 6 Extending the Spelling Reform  1 From Rational Spelling to a Universal Alphabet  2 Universal Characters and Philosophical Languages  3 The Cipher Model of Communication  4 Wilkins’s Phonetic Character and the Communication of Sounds 7 Representation and Analogy  1 Robert Boyle and the Encrypted Nature  2 Analogy and Alphabetisation  3 Contextualizing the Alphabetisation of Thought Bibliography Index

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Michael M. Isermann is Senior Lecturer in English Linguistics at the University of Heidelberg. He has published mainly in the history of linguistics and intellectual history.

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