Dictionaries in the European Enlightenment: a testimony to the
civilization of its time and the foundations of modern Europe

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Dictionaries in the European Enlightenment: a testimony to the civilization of its time and the foundations of modern Europe

BUZEK, Ivo

Basic information

Original name

Dictionaries in the European Enlightenment: a testimony to the civilization of its time and the foundations of modern Europe

Authors

BUZEK, Ivo

Edition

Nodos del conocimiento. Universidad, innovación e investigación ante el horizonte 2030 (10.-11. 12. 2020, On-line), 2020

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60202 Specific languages

Country of publisher

Spain

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

18th century; lexicography; history of social sciences; history of natural sciences

Abstract

V originále

The paper presents a plan for an international and multidisciplinary research project that is under preparation now and which is looking for collaborators from other universities or research centers. It aims to investigate the role that played monolingual, bilingual, and multilingual dictionaries published in the 18th century in the constitution of modern Europe as we know it now. It is well known that in the 18th century there appeared many dictionaries in various European countries. These dictionaries were mainly monolingual but there appeared many bilingual or plurilingual ones as well. They had a wide range of functions: linguistic (to write and understand texts), but also symbolic, representing the development and the level of civilization and prestige that a given language of culture had in times previous to 19th-century European linguistic nationalisms. Another aspect is text-oriented and text-based: the 18th-century dictionaries used to be built on relatively large sources of contemporary texts and they reflected the level of knowledge in various subjects. Therefore, they can be considered testimonies of contemporary linguistic thinking and the applied linguistics, but at the same time, they resume the development of science, legal thought, political science, etc., illustrating how knowledge spread in the Enlightenment at the international level. The project seeks to unite researchers dedicated to the linguistic historiography of philologies of European languages, historians of natural sciences, law, and social and political history, among other disciplines. It aims to offer a map of the intellectual and political globalization that began to take place in the 18th century as it is reflected in its dictionaries. The project currently counts with a small group of researchers from linguistic historiography of Romance languages. Researchers of the historiography of other European philologies are welcome and needed, and so are historians of natural and social sciences specialized in the 18th century. The main aim of the project is to stop working in parallel, horizontal and vertical, tunnels and to form a network, necessary for this type of transdisciplinary research.

Links

MUNI/A/1262/2019, interní kód MU

Name: Románské jazyky a románské literatury 2020 (Acronym: ROMJAZLIT20)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

Citovat

BUZEK, Ivo. Dictionaries in the European Enlightenment: a testimony to the civilization of its time and the foundations of modern Europe. In Nodos del conocimiento. Universidad, innovación e investigación ante el horizonte 2030 (10.-11. 12. 2020, On-line). 2020.

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BUZEK, Ivo. Dictionaries in the European Enlightenment: a testimony to the civilization of its time and the foundations of modern Europe. In \textit{Nodos del conocimiento. Universidad, innovación e investigación ante el horizonte 2030 (10.-11. 12. 2020, On-line)}. 2020.

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