Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – November 2020

Historiographia Linguistica 47-1. 2020. Amsterdam : Benjamins. 195 p. ISSN 0302-5160
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Table of contents

Articles:
Manuel Sartori – Une cause et ses raisons d’être Solution latine à un problème de terminologie arabe.

Marco Spreafico – Diglossia and language ideology Petrarch on linguistic variation and differentiation.

Floris Solleveld – Expanding the comparative view: Humboldt’s Über die Kawi-Sprache and its language materials.

Frederick J. Newmeyer – Crisis in the Linguistic Society of America: The contested presidential election of 1970.

Review article:
Iris Plack – Une ‘grammaire’ des grammaires de la Renaissance.

Book review:
Bibliographie linguistique de l’année 2016 et complément des années précédentes [Linguistic Bibliography for the Year 2016 and supplement for previous years]. Éditée par Anne Aarssen, René Genis & Eline van der Veken
Reviewed by Pierre Swiggers


Language and History 63-3. 2020. Taylor & Francis Group. ISSN 1759-7536.
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Table of contents

Articles:
Claudia Schweitzer – La voix humaine: instrument à vent ou instrument à cordes? Un parcours historique (XVIIe/XVIIIe siècles) autour de cette question.

Floris Solleveld – Lepsius as a linguist: fieldwork, philology, phonetics, and ‘the Hamitic hypothesis’.

Stephen Turton – The confessional sciences: scientific lexicography and sexology in the Oxford English Dictionary.

Book Review:
Hua Tan – A history of modern translation knowledge: sources, concepts and effect
[Benjamins Translation Library], edited by Lieven D’Hulst and Yves Gambier, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018, ix, 475 pp., $149 (Hardbound), ISBN 9789027200990; $149 (e-book), ISBN 9789027263872

In memoriam:
Frank Vonk , Jan Noordegraaf , Roland de Bonth & Gijsbert Rutten – Frans Wilhelm (1945–2020)


Simon Coffey ed. 2020. The History of Grammar in Foreign Language Teaching. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press. Languages and Culture in History. 256 p. ISBN 9789463724616
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Taking a broadly chronological approach, this volume of original essays traces the origins of the concept of ‘grammar’. In doing so, it charts the social, moral and cultural factors that have shaped the development of grammar from Antiquity, via the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Modern Europe, to current education systems and language learning pedagogy. The chapters examine key turning points in the history of language teaching epistemology, focusing on grammar for language teaching across different European cultural contexts. Bringing together leading scholars of classical and modern languages education, The History of Grammar in Foreign Language Teaching offers the first single-source reference on the evolving concept of grammar across cultural and linguistic borders in Western language education. It therefore represents a valuable resource for teachers, teacher-educators and course designers, as well as students and scholars of historical linguistics, and of second and foreign language education.


Jean-Michel Robert. 2020. Leibniz et les universaux du langage. Paris : Honoré Champion. Lexica : mots et dictionnaires. 224 p. ISBN 9782745353924
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Les recherches de Leibniz sur le langage sont axées sur deux concepts fondamentaux : la langue originelle et la langue universelle. Il postule l’existence d’une langue originelle parfaite, donnée par Dieu à l’humanité et possédant, de ce fait, les meilleures propriétés possibles. Cette langue se serait composée d’une classification sémantique parfaite en idées premières, logiquement reliées entre elles, et dont les réalisations phoniques reflétaient le plus exactement possible l’essence des concepts. Dans ses projets de langue universelle, Leibniz élabore une classification des concepts (Caractéristique universelle) et une réduction de la grammaire d’une langue naturelle à une forme sémanticosyntaxique logique (grammaire rationnelle). Cette grammaire rationnelle offre de solides analogies avec d’autres systèmes linguistiques, réduits de façons naturelle ou artificielle, ce qui permet de supposer que Leibniz a pu dégager des universaux du langage.

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