The Architectures of Babel

Creation, Extinctions and Intercessions in the Languages of the Global World

by Paolo Fabbri, Tiziana Migliore and Massimo Riva

Book cover: The Architectures of Babel

Extent: 178 pages

Publisher: Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki

Subjects: Cultural Studies, Language & Linguistics

Series: Fondazione Giorgio Cini - Civilta veneziana. Studi

Series volume number: 53

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(December 2011)

ISBN: 9788822260963

Price: $27.00

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Gathered here are the contributions of the second edition of I Dialoghi di San Giorgio, organized by the Giorgio Cini Foundation on the topic Architectures of Babel. Linguists, semiologists, philosophers, sociologists, scientists and poets discuss the mediating role of languages in integration and clash of cultures, ethnic groups and religions. Also investigated is the mutation of languages, which today are more and more syncretisms of words, graphs, numbers, images, rather than verbal systems.

  • By (author) Paolo Fabbri
  • By (author) Tiziana Migliore
  • By (author) Massimo Riva