what’s in a name just sane revolution we
evoke images google it and it gets as
close as it gets to what linguists
define as connotation revolution is red
it has hands mostly clenching fists it
belongs to the streets and to the
squares yet once we crack the surface of
connotations we are introduced in a
universe of transient meanings is the
word of dictionaries revealing the
complex trajectories of words over
centuries and how humans go about
revolutionizing not only society but
semantics too so this is the story of
the word revolution when it enters the
English language in 1393 it simply means
loop a meaning now long lost it then
shifts towards change it specializes in
to political change to branch in to
change in technology and science it’s a
huge evolutionary enterprise where each
step marks a revolution in the way we
express and understand change yet to
understand how we need to try to imagine
a world without revolution 90% of the
English vocabulary comes from Latin and
Greek yet neither Latin or Greek can
translate revolution the Latin res Nova
and the Greek Newton is most literally
new things juxtapose innovation to
tradition dismissing the former and
political change as disorder against the
backdrop of the established order yet
sweeping political changes did happen in
antiquity – and Rick philosophers made
sense of them as part of a cycle and
achilles is the same word that was used
to describe the eternal circling of
skies
and the perpetual reincarnation of souls
one life after the other and it’s
exactly to translate the latter that in
the fifth century AD Center Gaston takes
the Latin verb revolve vote to return
and makes it into a name revolution and
the sound is born 800 years later an
Italian monk inspired by a solar eclipse
decides to translate Aristotle’s
astronomy from Greek the language of
scholars into Italian the language of
the people he steals Augustine’s
revolutio to translate and Achilles’s
but it does so by Italian eyes in it it
becomes revolución and soon revolution
leaves the spheres of speculations and
dreams to enter your life it’s in
Florence arrived in the same period when
it’s used to describe Civic disorders
now revolution is not anymore
a returning movement but it’s a twist in
history
and it’s in these two connotations one
is a loop and the other is a twist that
he enters French and English to be
changed forever because between the 17th
and 18th century large-scale rebellions
the Glorious Revolution the American
Revolution and the French Revolution
make clear that political change is not
just a twist in history but it’s a
turning point revolutions don’t just
happen they are made and by gaining
agencies they gain trajectories it’s
either in Russo’s world when Kings
become subjects and poor become rich
service which of opposites or in Marxist
understanding of revolution a bottom-up
movement of freedom where the oppressed
overcomes the oppressor it’s the latter
understanding that enters the 19th and
20th century the Hindi Kranti the Arabic
Torah literally meaning rebellion
and the Chinese gaming literally meaning
transfer of mandate by divine will our
in fact used to describe huge wars of
Independence against foreign rulers and
by doing so we translate them as
revolution but they have the taste of
freedom and because freedom and
emancipation do mark new beginnings in
then there is a further layer to the
firt to the world revolution in the
early 19th century the quick Wars of
Independence against the Ottomans are
called upon us to see we translated as
revolution but it literally means a new
beginning and not even ten years ago in
the Middle East Revolution went by the
name of spring yet to say that through
the word revolution political change
goes from chaos disorder to freedom is
only to tell half of the story because
in the early 19th century revolution was
used to describe silent and yet not less
radical change it changed in knowledge
science technology or culture and a new
verb is ourn to revolutionize now if we
google it it looks very different from
revolution it’s blue instead of red
it has screens instead of flags and it’s
labs instead of squares and this is the
end of the talk but it’s not the end of
the story because what semantic
revolutions can teach us is that words
are for us to be told and it’s not just
the future revolutions to be in your
hands but the future of the world
revolution too so take this name and say
it your own way
[Applause]
evoke images google it and it gets as
close as it gets to what linguists
define as connotation revolution is red
it has hands mostly clenching fists it
belongs to the streets and to the
squares yet once we crack the surface of
connotations we are introduced in a
universe of transient meanings is the
word of dictionaries revealing the
complex trajectories of words over
centuries and how humans go about
revolutionizing not only society but
semantics too so this is the story of
the word revolution when it enters the
English language in 1393 it simply means
loop a meaning now long lost it then
shifts towards change it specializes in
to political change to branch in to
change in technology and science it’s a
huge evolutionary enterprise where each
step marks a revolution in the way we
express and understand change yet to
understand how we need to try to imagine
a world without revolution 90% of the
English vocabulary comes from Latin and
Greek yet neither Latin or Greek can
translate revolution the Latin res Nova
and the Greek Newton is most literally
new things juxtapose innovation to
tradition dismissing the former and
political change as disorder against the
backdrop of the established order yet
sweeping political changes did happen in
antiquity – and Rick philosophers made
sense of them as part of a cycle and
achilles is the same word that was used
to describe the eternal circling of
skies
and the perpetual reincarnation of souls
one life after the other and it’s
exactly to translate the latter that in
the fifth century AD Center Gaston takes
the Latin verb revolve vote to return
and makes it into a name revolution and
the sound is born 800 years later an
Italian monk inspired by a solar eclipse
decides to translate Aristotle’s
astronomy from Greek the language of
scholars into Italian the language of
the people he steals Augustine’s
revolutio to translate and Achilles’s
but it does so by Italian eyes in it it
becomes revolución and soon revolution
leaves the spheres of speculations and
dreams to enter your life it’s in
Florence arrived in the same period when
it’s used to describe Civic disorders
now revolution is not anymore
a returning movement but it’s a twist in
history
and it’s in these two connotations one
is a loop and the other is a twist that
he enters French and English to be
changed forever because between the 17th
and 18th century large-scale rebellions
the Glorious Revolution the American
Revolution and the French Revolution
make clear that political change is not
just a twist in history but it’s a
turning point revolutions don’t just
happen they are made and by gaining
agencies they gain trajectories it’s
either in Russo’s world when Kings
become subjects and poor become rich
service which of opposites or in Marxist
understanding of revolution a bottom-up
movement of freedom where the oppressed
overcomes the oppressor it’s the latter
understanding that enters the 19th and
20th century the Hindi Kranti the Arabic
Torah literally meaning rebellion
and the Chinese gaming literally meaning
transfer of mandate by divine will our
in fact used to describe huge wars of
Independence against foreign rulers and
by doing so we translate them as
revolution but they have the taste of
freedom and because freedom and
emancipation do mark new beginnings in
then there is a further layer to the
firt to the world revolution in the
early 19th century the quick Wars of
Independence against the Ottomans are
called upon us to see we translated as
revolution but it literally means a new
beginning and not even ten years ago in
the Middle East Revolution went by the
name of spring yet to say that through
the word revolution political change
goes from chaos disorder to freedom is
only to tell half of the story because
in the early 19th century revolution was
used to describe silent and yet not less
radical change it changed in knowledge
science technology or culture and a new
verb is ourn to revolutionize now if we
google it it looks very different from
revolution it’s blue instead of red
it has screens instead of flags and it’s
labs instead of squares and this is the
end of the talk but it’s not the end of
the story because what semantic
revolutions can teach us is that words
are for us to be told and it’s not just
the future revolutions to be in your
hands but the future of the world
revolution too so take this name and say
it your own way
[Applause]
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