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At the age of sixteen Charles Dickens decided to learn the Brachygraphy shorthand and trained himself to write shorter and faster. That it poses many difficulties can be read in his novel David Copperfield where the main character is... more
Ausilio Fantaguzzi (Milan, 1886-1944) was a journalist stenographer and publisher of the golden age of shorthand in Milan and in Italy. He worked for "Agenzia Stefani", "Il Secolo XIX", "Il Corriere della Sera". Only seventeen years old... more
The June 1888 issue of the Phonographic World magazine presented John Pynchon, an ancestor of Thomas, as “The First American Shorthand Reporter”. While most biographical criticism to date of Thomas Pynchon has focused on the cameo... more
Forms of short and fast writing have existed since antiquity, but interest in them rapidly took off during the early modern period. Dozens of different manuals and methods appeared, all promising to teach the trendiest manuscript... more
日本語教材となった円朝速記:
『怪談牡丹燈籠』(1884) Aston (1888) 、Chamberlain (1888) 、Weintz (1905)
『塩原多助一代記』(1885) Aston (1888) 、Weintz 、Lange (1906)
『蝦夷錦古郷の家土産』(1888) Plaut (1891)
『明治の地獄』 (1892) Lange (1906)
『怪談牡丹燈籠』(1884) Aston (1888) 、Chamberlain (1888) 、Weintz (1905)
『塩原多助一代記』(1885) Aston (1888) 、Weintz 、Lange (1906)
『蝦夷錦古郷の家土産』(1888) Plaut (1891)
『明治の地獄』 (1892) Lange (1906)
Shorthand, ciphers and universal language around the 17th century. The practical use of language, in particular the inventions of shorthand, numbers and universal characters, is explored. Extensive examples take the reader through... more
A blog post relating to the exhibition can be accessed here: http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/cmt/?p=5057. Writing by Sound: Pitman’s Phonographic Shorthand charts something of the extraordinary ambition of Isaac Pitman’s attempt to create... more
Writing fieldnotes is an important part of ethnographic research. However, there is a striking lack of discussions about how different ways of producing fieldnotes may influence ethnographic research and meaning-making. The use of... more