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Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2021 14:58:16
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [Sebastian.Nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Historical journey in a linguistic archipelago: Aussant, Fortis (eds.)

 


Title: Historical journey in a linguistic archipelago 
Subtitle: Descriptive concepts and case studies 
Series Title: History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Language Science Press
	   http://langsci-press.org
	

Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/286 


Editor: Émilie Aussant
Editor: Jean-Michel Fortis

Electronic: ISBN:  9783961102921 Pages: 230 Price: Europe EURO 0 Comment: Open Access


Abstract:

This volume offers a selection of papers presented during the 14th
International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XIV,
Paris, 2017). Part I brings together studies dealing with descriptive
concepts. First examined is the notion of “accidens” in Latin grammar and its
Greek counterparts. Other papers address questions with a strong echo in
today’s linguistics: localism and its revival in recent semantics and syntax,
the origin of the term “polysemy” and its adoption through Bréal, and the
difficulties attending the description of prefabs, idioms and other “fixed
expressions”. This first part also includes studies dealing with
representations of linguistic phenomena, whether these concern the treatment
of local varieties (so-called patois) in French research, or the import and
epistemological function of spatial representations in descriptions of
linguistic time. Or again, now taking the word “representation” literally, the
visual display of grammatical relations, in the form of the first syntactic
diagrams. Part II presents case studies which involve wider concerns, of a
social nature: the “from below” approach to the history of Chinese Pidgin
English underlines the social roles of speakers and the diversity of speech
situations, while the scrutiny of Lhomond’s Latin and French textbooks
demonstrates the interplay of pedagogical practice, cross-linguistic
comparison and descriptive innovation. An overview of early descriptions of
Central Australian languages reveals a whole spectrum of humanist to
positivist and antihumanist stances during the colonial age. An overarching
framework is also at play in the anthropological perspective championed by
Meillet, whose socially and culturally oriented semantics is shown to live on
in Benveniste. The volume ends with a paper on Trần Đức Thảo, whose work is an
original synthesis between phenomenology and Marxist semiology, wielded
against the “idealistic” doctrine of Saussure.
 



Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     French (fra)
                     Greek, Modern (ell)
                     Latin (lat)
                     Pidgin English, Chinese (cpi)


Written In: English  (eng)

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