1st Edition

C.K. Ogden and Linguistics With a new critical edition of The Meaning of Meaning

2296 Pages
by Routledge

Charles Kay Ogden was best known in the world press as the founder of Basic English and remains known as the senior author (with I A Richards) of The Meaning of Meaning and the expositor of Jeremy Bentham's writings. But he also turned his boundless intellectual energy to allied fields such as psychology, lexicography, and prosody. This collection contains a new critical edition of The Meaning... Read more

Significs

The Progress of Man's Linguistic Heritage

A New Solution of the Universal Language Problem

Opposition: A Linguistic and Psychological Analysis

How Not to Make a Dictionary

Sound, Sense and Intelligibility: An Orthological Interpretation of Stress and Rhythm

The Prosody of Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Origins of Archetypation 352pp

Bentham's Philosophy of As-If

Ghosts, Fictions and Incomplete Symbols

Bentham's Theory of Language

Bentham's Theory of Legislation

Basic English and Grammatical Reform

Debabelization

The Basic Vocabulary

Basic for Science 376pp

The Meaning of Meaning: A Study of the Influence of Language upon Thought and of the Science of Symbolism 591pp

Counter-Offensive: An Exposure of Certain Misrepresentations of Basic English 396pp

From Russell to Russo: Reviews and Commentaries

(I A Richard's article on "Basic English and its applications" reproduced with permission from the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, Vol.LXXXVII, No. 4515, 2 June 1939). 460pp

Biography

Charles Kay Ogden was best known in the world press as the founder of Basic English. The author is Professor Terence Gordon, the distinguished Ogden scholar who is currently undertaking a full scale biography of Ogden.