George Dalgarno
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George Dalgarno (1626 – 1687) was a Scottish intellectual interested in linguistic problems. Originally from Aberdeen, he later worked as a schoolteacher in Oxford in collaboration with John Wilkins, although the two parted company intellectually in 1659.
[edit] Works
Dalgarno was the author of Didascalocophus or the Deaf and Dumb man’s tutor (1680), which proposed a totally new linguistic system for use by deaf mutes. The system is still used in the United States.[1]
Dalgarno was also interested in constructing what he called a 'philosophical language', now more usually referred to as universal language. A modern translation of his Ars signorum (Art of Signs, 1661) was published in 2001 in an edition that also includes his autobiography and other manuscript writings.
[edit] References
- David Cram and Jaap Maat, eds., George Dalgarno on Universal Language: The Art of Signs (1661), The Deaf and Dumb Man's Tutor (1680), and the Unpublished Papers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
- Umberto Eco, The search for the perfect language, Fontana Press, 1997, ISBN 0-00-686378-7, pp.228-237
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