De re philosophica linguae universalis en las utopías racionalistas de la Fabulosa Terra Austral Incognita

Abstract

This work analyses the constructed rational languages that appear in two utopian novels of the seventeenth century: La Terre Australe Connue (Foigny 1676), and the Histoire des Sevarambes (Vairasse 1677). The aim is to demonstrate that these constructed languages are the reflection of the ideological traces of the time, but they anticipate linguistic ideas that will develop in later centuries.