30.2340, Books: Form and formalism in linguistics: McElvenny (ed.)

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Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2019 10:51:35
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [Sebastian.Nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Form and formalism in linguistics: McElvenny (ed.)

 


Title: Form and formalism in linguistics 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Language Science Press
	   http://langsci-press.org
	

Book URL: http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/214 


Editor: James McElvenny

Electronic: ISBN:  9783961101825 Pages: 288 Price: Europe EURO 0 Comment: Open Access


Abstract:

"Form" and "formalism" are a pair of highly productive and polysemous terms
that occupy a central place in much linguistic scholarship. Diverse notions of
"form" – embedded in biological, cognitive and aesthetic discourses – have
been employed in accounts of language structure and relationship, while
"formalism" harbours a family of senses referring to particular approaches to
the study of language as well as representations of linguistic phenomena. This
volume brings together a series of contributions from historians of science
and philosophers of language that explore some of the key meanings and uses
that these multifaceted terms and their derivatives have found in linguistics,
and what these reveal about the mindset, temperament and daily practice of
linguists, from the nineteenth century up to the present day.
 



Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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