The Meaning of Meaning a Study of the Influence of Language Upon Thought and of the Science of Symbolism
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Theoretical Backup One for the Lexicon of Finnegans Wake: Volume Fifty-Five C. K. Ogden et al. The only professional British linguist who succeeded to provide a recording of the voice of James Joyce, and the very first translator of Ludwig Wittgenstein into English. The Meaning of Meaning A Study of the Influence of Language upon Thought and of the Science of Symbolism. Edited by C. George Sandulescu Recommended Reading: C. K. Ogden: The Meaning of Meaning C. K. Ogden: Opposition C. K. Ogden: Basic English Bucureşti 2013 This “theoretical insert”, Volume 55, Volume 56, and Volume 57, is dedicated to Professor CARLA MARENGO— a most remarkable teacher of English Literature, and thorough researcher of Joyce. Monte Carlo, Noël 2013 George Sandulescu The Turin Shroud Press Release Noël 2013 Theoretical Backup for the Lexicon of Finnegans Wake Edited by C. George Sandulescu Charles Ogden (1889-1957) was Charles Ogden (1889-1957) este a linguist and a language philosopher: cunoscut ca lingvist şi filosof al to him the word was as real as any other limbajului: cuvântul, pentru el, era o object in his hands. He demonstrated realitate concretă. Acest lucru l-a this by recording the very voice of demonstrat atunci când a înregistrat pe James Joyce himself. The reading was disc vocea lui James Joyce însuşi. made in August 1929 at King’s College, Înregistrarea a fost făcută în august London. By mentioning the year of that 1929 la King’s College, Londra. Tot în recording, we inevitably notice that the primul sfert al secolului XX s-au mai first quarter of the twentieth century petrecut o sumă de evenimente grouped together quite a number of importante. 1. Înainte chiar de anul remarkable events. 1. The phonograph 1900 s-a inventat fonograful. 2. Tom had been invented before 1900. 2. Tom Stoppard îşi construieşte piesa Stoppard, in his play Travesties, Travesties pe ideea că, în 1917 la Zürich, describes how, in 1917, in Zurich, Joyce, Joyce, Tzara şi Lenin s-au aflat Tzara, and Lenin sat not far one from împreună în aceeaşi încăpere. 3. În the other in the very same room. 3. The anul 1922 a luat fiinţă BBC. 4. În cursul BBC came into being in 1922. 4. During aceluiaşi an Ogden a tradus în limba the same year, Ogden published his engleză Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, own translation into English of pe care Wittgenstein îl publicase în Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico- germană cu un an înainte. 5. Tot în Philosophicus, which had been written anul 1922 au apărut Ulysses de Joyce şi in German the year before. 5. The same The Waste Land de Eliot. Rămâne fără year, 1922, saw the publication of răspuns pentru moment întrebarea Joyce’s Ulysses and Eliot’s The Waste dacă Joyce l-a citit ori nu pe Land. Whether Joyce had read Wittgenstein. 6. Ogden a publicat The Wittgenstein is the great question that Meaning of Meaning în 1923, carte care nobody can answer. 6. Ogden’s own anunţa că esenţa Modernismului era The Meaning of Meaning was published relaţia dintre sunet şi sens. 7. În jurul in 1923: it made the relationship anului 1930, Ogden mai publică două between sound and meaning the volume importante: Opposition şi Basic essence of Modernism. 7. In the 1930’s, English. John Lyons, autor de manuale, Ogden published two other major considera Opposition a fi una dintre books, Opposition, and Basic English. cele mai bune discuţii pe această temă. The textbook-writer John Lyons Raţiunea pentru care publicăm considered Ogden’s Opposition to be în acest moment cărţile lui Ogden, ca one of the best discussions on the fundament teoretic al seriei subject. lexicografice Joyce, este aceea că The reason we are publishing Ogden a realizat două lucruri Ogden’s books now, as a theoretical importante, care sunt strâns legate backup for James Joyce Lexicography, între ele. Primul este că a făcut has something to do with the fact that cunoscută lumii vocea lui Joyce citind there is a close relationship between un fragment dintr-o carte în care se Ogden’s two major achievements. One exprima în 40 de limbi străine diferite achievement was that he made publicly în acelaşi timp. Al doilea este Basic known the recording of Joyce reading a English: Ogden era încredinţat că limba fragment of the book he was writing in engleză este singurul drum către o 40 languages at once. Ogden’s second limbă unică internaţională. Ideile lui great achievement was Basic English: privind sensul, opoziţia şi Basic English he believed that English could be, and duc drept la gândurile care trebuie că was, in fact, the key to the one and only l-au obsedat pe Joyce în cei 17 ani cât a international language. Ogden’s ideas durat până ce a terminat de scris of Meaning, Opposition and Basic Finnegans Wake. English seem to lead straight into Nu este lipsit de interes faptul Joyce’s own thoughts constantly că Alexandru Graur, membru al aşa- hovering in his mind during the 17 zisei Academii a Republicii Socialiste years while he was writing Finnegans România, a scris şi el o carte în care Wake. descria Basic English drept o “încercare Quite remarkable is the fact that imperialistă şi condamnabilă.” Alexandru Graur, member of the so- Grupate în secţiunea de called Academy of the Socialist fundamentare teoretică, cele trei Republic of Romania, wrote a book in volume de Ogden ridică o sumă de which he described Basic English not probleme esenţiale pentru cerecetătorii only as an “imperialist” act, but also as operei lui Joyce: Ce anume l-a făcut pe the most “reprehensible attempt”. lingvistul britanic Charles Ogden să- Ogden’ three books, now l înregistreze pe James Joyce citind un grouped under the heading fragment dintr-o carte pe care nici Theoretical Backup, posit major măcar n-o terminase încă? Ce intenţie questions for Joyce researchers: What teoretică leagă oare volumele lui made the British linguist Charles Ogden de înregistrarea vocii lui Ogden record James Joyce reading Joyce, singura înregistare, de altfel, a from a book far from being finished at vocii lui Joyce până în ziua de azi? Şi, the time? What theoretical threads can nu în ultimul rând, de ce oare a possibly connect Ogden’s major acceptat Joyce să fie înregistrat de books to the recording of Joyce’s Ogden? voice, the only one of its kind to this Autorii acestei serii teoretice day? And, last but not least: Why speră că cititorii atenţi vor dezlega exactly did Joyce accept to be aceste enigme, fiecare în felul lui, recorded? desigur. We, as the publishers of this series, do hope the diligent reader will certainly manage to find his own answers. C. George Sandulescu & Lidia Vianu ISBN: 978-606-8366-84-5 © Charles K. Ogden © The University of Bucharest © C. George Sandulescu Cover Design, Illustrations, and overall Layout by Lidia Vianu Subediting: Miruna Voican, Andreea Ştefan, Cristina Drăgoi. Typing: Valentina Albu, Sorina Cimpoeru, Alexandra Ivaşcu, Andreea Lazăr, Iulia Mareş, Andreea Mesescu, Sabina Miron, Mihaela Olinescu. IT Expertise: Simona Sămulescu. Publicity: Violeta Baroană. Logo: Manuela Stancu. Acknowledgments Charles K. Ogden et al.: The Meaning of Meaning: A Study of the Influence of Language upon Thought and of the Science of Symbolism, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1923. Alexandru Graur: Fondul principal al limbii române, Editura Ştiinţifică, Bucureşti, 1957, pp 110-111. I. A. Richards: “Some Recollections of C. K. Ogden”, in Encounter, September 1957, pp. 10-12. It is by coincidence rather than by special intention that we are reissuing The Meaning of Meaning at such a round and symbolic date. N.B. This Lexicographic Series as a whole is primarily meant as teaching material for the larger half of Continental Europe, which, for practically three quarters of a century, was deprived of ready access to the experimental fiction and poetry of the world. All Western literary criticism was also banned. Hence, the imperative necessity of re-issuing a considerable amount of post-war discussions. The Publisher. If you want to have all the information you need about Finnegans Wake, including the full text of Finnegans Wake line-numbered, go to the personal site Sandulescu Online, at the following internet address: http://sandulescu.perso.monaco.mc/ Given the importance of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, all postgraduates in English, Romanian, French, and German work on this research project as part of their normal and regular academic assignments. L V Academic Director C L P Theoretical Backup One for the Lexicon of Finnegans Wake: Volume Fifty-Five C. K. Ogden et al. The Meaning of Meaning A Study of the Influence of Language upon Thought and of the Science of Symbolism. Edited by C. George Sandulescu Bucureşti 2013 Theoretica Backup One for the Lexicon of Finnegan Wake: Charles K. Ogden: The Meaning of Meaning 1 Table of Contents C. George Only Connect p. 17 Sandulescu Alexandru Graur Fondul principal al limbii române (1957) — Exctract p. 23 I.A. Richards Some Recollections of C.K. Ogden (1957) p. 26 Charles K. Ogden The Meaning of Meaning. p. 32 et al. A Study of the Influence of Language upon Thought and of the Science of Symbolism. Chapter I p. 34 Thoughts, Words and Things Meaning, the central problem of Language, neglected by the sciences most concerned, I. Its treatment by philosophers to be considered in detail as the analysis proceeds, particularly in Chapter VIII. The philological approach. — Professor Postgate’s clear formulation. The failure of Semantics; Bréal. F. de Saussure and la langue. The ethnologists; Boas. The development of psychology makes a scientific treatment of symbols possible. The importance of Symbols in all discussion and inquiry.