Charles Kay Ogden

Charles Kay Ogden ( born June 1, 1889 in Fleetwood, Lancashire, † March 21, 1957 in London) was a British linguist and writer.

Life

Ogden studied languages ​​at Cambridge. In 1912 he founded a weekly magazine The Cambridge Magazine with literary authors such as Thomas Hardy, George Bernard Shaw, HG Wells, etc. In his life he translated a total of 15 books from the German and French language. The most popular translation was a philosophical work: Ogden translated, with the help of George Edward Moore, Frank P. Ramsey and Ludwig Wittgenstein himself, in 1922, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Wittgenstein into English.

Ogden is also the inventor of the constructed simplified language ( international language ) Basic English, with 850 words and a simplified grammar, developed by 1926 until 1930. His intention was thought a standardized, uniform tool for international communication, as an international second language was to create. For this he was supported by the Prime Ministers Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill and the American President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was founded specifically a foundation ( Ortho Logical Institute) for the dissemination of the Basic English, whose Chairman and Director Ogden was. The goal of the Institute was among other things the training of teachers. These activities were discontinued at the end of the Second World War.

Ogden is also known for its developed in collaboration with IA Richards 1923 theory about the meaning of meaning ( The Meaning of Meaning ), which describes the semiotic triangle called and the famous grammatically correct, but essentially meaningless sentence "The Gostak distims the doshes " ( German: The Gostak distimmt the Doschen. ) includes. This indicates only that the Gostak is a Distimmer of Doschen that Doschen from Gostak be distimmt, unless it is further known what the words Gostak, distimmen and actually mean Doschen.

Works (selection)

  • Ludwig Wittgenstein: Tractatus Logico - Philosophicus. The CK Ogden translation. prepared with assistance from Moore, Ramsey, and Wittgenstein himself. Routledge, 1922, ISBN 041505186X.
  • IA Richards, CK Ogden: The Meaning of Meaning. 1989, ISBN 0156584468 ( first edition 1923). German The meaning of meaning. A study on influence d d d language on thinking about u of Sciences. d symbolism. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt ( am Main ) 1974.
  • Under the leadership of CK Ogden: The General Basic English Dictionary. Evans Brothers Limited, London from 1940, ISBN 0,874,713,625th
  • Linguist
  • Briton
  • Publisher
  • Born in 1889
  • Died in 1957
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