About
Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957) was a British linguist, philosopher, and editor. He founded The Cambridge Magazine in 1912, an intellectual weekly that featured contributions from writers such as Thomas Hardy and George Bernard Shaw. With I.A. Richards, he co-authored The Meaning of Meaning (1923), a landmark work in linguistics and philosophy of language. He also invented Basic English, a simplified 850-word version of English, and founded the Orthological Institute to promote it. He edited influential book series for Kegan Paul and facilitated the English translation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
Major works
- The Meaning of Meaning (1923)essay
- Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar (1930)manual
- The System of Basic English (1934)manual
Key milestones
- 1912Founded The Cambridge Magazine.
- 1927Founded the Orthological Institute to promote Basic English.
- 1947The Basic English Foundation was established with a grant from the British Ministry of Education.
Themes
Philosophy of languageLinguisticsUniversal languageSemanticsIntellectual editing
Sources: britannica.com · archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk · id.loc.gov