Of codes and coda: meaning in telegraph messages, circa 1850-1920

'Diese Arbeit untersucht das Telegramm und seine Wirkung auf Bedeutung und Sprache einschließlich indischer nationalistischer Strategien, imperiale Kontrolle zu untergraben. Nach 1860 stellte sich das britisch-indische Empire als entscheidendes strategisches Element im weltweiten Telegraphennetz heraus. Es umfasste Länder außerhalb des heutigen Indiens und das größte Gebiet des 'informal empire'. Dieser Artikel verwendet die Begriffe Indien und das indische Empire in diesem weiteren Sinne. Veränderungen des zeitlichen Ablaufs und die Verkürzung der Distanz ermöglichte ein schnelles Versenden und Empfangen von Nachrichten, aber ließ auch mehrere Interpretationen eines Telegramms zu. Es war eine Welt elektronischer Kommunikation, in der sich Codes, Chiffre und Fehldeutungen wiederholten: eine Welt nebulöser Bedeutungen. Diese Arbeit analysiert die technologischen und interpretativen Dimensionen dieser asymmetrischen Welt transnationaler elektronischer Kommunikationsflüsse.' (Autorenreferat)'This paper examines the telegram and its impact upon meaning and language, including Indian nationalist strategies subverting imperial control. After 1860, the British Indian Empire emerged as a crucial strategic element in the telegraph network of the globe. It included countries outside present-day India and the larger sphere of 'informal empire.' The paper uses the terms India and the Indian Empire in this broader sense. Changes in time and shortening of distance, allowed messages to be sent and received rapidly but permitted multiple interpretations of what telegrams meant. It was a world of electronic communication where codes and ciphers and mistaken meanings were recurrent: a world of shadowy meanings. This paper analyses the technological and interpretative dimensions of this asymmetrical world of transnational electronic communication flows.' (author's abstract

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