Language, Nuclear Waste and Society : The Preservation of Knowledge over Vast Periods of Time and its Relevance for Linguistics
(2015) In Lychnos 2015. p.7-25- Abstract
- The article discusses the impact of comparative/historical philology upon the question of nuclear semiotics, i.e. the field of how humanity is to communicate information about nuclear waste storage into the distant future and its (presumably human) inhabitants. It also turns this perspective on its head and discusses possible insights in the other direction – what Nuclear Semiotics can teach historical linguistics. It is argued that the “nuclear waste question” provides one of the clearest examples of the purely practical importance of human reflection upon the historical development of language and writing.
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- author
- Wikander, Ola LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2015
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Biblical Hebrew, Indo-European, Coptic, Etruscan, historical linguistics, nuclear semiotics, comparative linguistics, Nuclear waste
- in
- Lychnos
- volume
- 2015
- pages
- 7 - 25
- publisher
- Lärdomshistoriska samfundet, Uppsala universitet
- ISSN
- 0076-1648
- project
- Ancient texts in ancient tongues - nuclear waste and future knowledge
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- e8ee937d-a91f-487d-8c31-d1c6709ba123 (old id 8572699)
- alternative location
- https://tidskriftenlychnos.se/article/view/20244/18211
- date added to LUP
- 2016-04-01 14:52:52
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- 2023-07-14 14:33:27
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