Lorenzo Cigana & Frans Gregersen, ed. 2023. Structuralism as one – structuralism as many – Studies in Structuralisms. Copenhagen: Gads Forlag. 560 p. ISBN 9788773044476
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This book includes 14 contributions to the study of structuralism as a historical current in the history of European ideas and more particularly in the study of language. The studies combine to contextualize structuralism in both its unity and its diversity, hence the title. In the first section, the reader is introduced to the broader canvas of disciplines and competing ideas surrounding structuralism, starting with Claude Lévi-Strauss’s anthropological structuralism. The second section views structural linguistics from without and investigates its legacy in relation to contemporary linguistics, analyzing its relationship to functionalism and its forerunners. The third section explores structuralism from within, with particular attention to a specific output: Louis Hjelmslev’s theory of glossematics. This constitutes the focus from where the immediate past within the Danish tradition is reanalyzed and its heritage for today’s semiotics and linguistics is discussed.
Erik Martin, Michał Mrugalski, Patrick Flack, ed. 2022. Neo-Kantianism as an entanglement of intellectual cultures in Central and Eastern Europe: Neukantianismus als Verflechtung von Wissenskulturen Mittel-und Osteuropas. Genève/Lausanne: sdvig press. 240 p. ISBN 9782940738045. DOI: 10.19079/9782940738045
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The present volume, which constitutes the proceedings of the eponymous conference held in May 2019 at the Polish Institute in Berlin, offers a series of detailed insights into the profoundly networked forms and practices of Neo-Kantian philosophy. Although far from exhaustive, the materials and perspectives gathered here establish beyond doubt that the scope and impact of Neo-Kantianism in the landscape of European culture and ideas can only ever be properly understood if one takes into account not just its main German “schools” (Marburg, Baden) but also its inter-disciplinary and cross-cultural dissemination in other contexts, not least in Poland and Russia. Conversely, this volume also underscores how the broad and diverse influence exerted by Neo-Kantian philosophy in its relatively long period of dominance constitutes a crucial element in the dynamics and evolution of European ideas and intellectual cultures, in particular the fundamental methodological break with the positivist traditions of the 19th century and the slow rise of “new” human sciences or Geisteswissenschaften (anthropology, cultural-historical psychology, linguistics, literary theory, sociology, cultural studies) around 1900.
Emanuel Bertrand, Wolf Feuerhahn & Valérie Tesnière, ed. 2023. Editer l’histoire des sciences (France, XXe siècle). Entre sciences et sciences humaines. Villeurbanne: Presses de l’Enssib. 280 p. ISBN 978-2-37546-177-8
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À l’heure où le débat scientifique bascule souvent dans les polémiques sociales, cet ouvrage aide à comprendre le processus de construction culturelle de la science, dont l’histoire et le périmètre se sont considérablement étendus depuis 60 ans. En adoptant l’angle des pratiques éditoriales, l’objectif de ce livre est d’interroger tant les supports et les types de productions dans leurs variations historiques et contextuelles (vulgarisation, manuels, ouvrages encyclopédiques ou de recherche, revues savantes ou à caractère militant ou politique, etc.) que la diversité des acteurs (auteurs, traducteurs, directeurs de collections, éditeurs) et des publics visés.
Franck Cinato, Aimée Lahaussois & John B. Whitman, ed. 2023. Glossing practice. Comparative perspectives. Lanham: Lexington Books. 272 p. ISBN 978-1-7936-1280-9
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This volume is the first book to focus specifically on the topic of comparative glossing. It brings together new research on glossing practices from traditions in both the West and East Asia, with a focus on Japan. It also touches on the relation between glossing in the medieval manuscript tradition and the modern linguistic use of the gloss. Its purpose is to present a sample of the most recent studies on glossing as it is practiced across very different parts of the world, highlighting the many shared features found across space and time.
Glosses take many forms and serve numerous functions according to when and where they are produced. They constitute a cross-cultural phenomenon anchored in language, and are the manifestation of hermeneutic processes involved in the transfer of knowledge from one linguistic area to another. Glosses are an integral part of all the stages of this transfer, which is characterized by the necessity to decode and explain the message, encompassing basic grammatical commentary and wider exegetical discussions.
Antoine Arnauld et Claude Lancelot. Grammaire générale et raisonnée. Edition de Bernard Colombat et Jean-Marie Fournier. Paris : Classiques Garnier. Descriptions et théories de la langue française, 7. 2023. ISBN 978-2-406-14218-8. DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-14218-8
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Malgré son importance dans l’histoire des sciences du langage, la Grammaire générale et raisonnée de Port-Royal (1660) n’avait encore fait l’objet d’aucune édition critique. La présente édition a pour objet de situer l’ouvrage dans la tradition linguistique, en en soulignant les traits les plus saillants
Eric Bordas, ed. 2022. Langages 228. La notion d’expressivité. Paris: Armand Colin. 156 p. ISBN 9782200934279
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SOMMAIRE
Éditorial
Éric Bordas – La notion d’expressivité. Présentation
Anamaria Curea – Retour sur le statut épistémologique de l’expressivité en linguistique, au regard de l’École genevoise de linguistique générale
Bernard Combettes – La linguistique historique et l’expressivité : les avatars d’une notion
Stéphane Bikialo & Julien Rault – Expressivité, exclamation et ponctuation
Marc Bonhomme – De l’expressivité des figures du discours
Nicolas Laurent – Formes de la prédication phrastique et expressivité
Dominique Legallois – Analyse critique des éléments définitoires du phénomène expressif
Luciana Furbetta & Fabio Romanini, ed. 2022. Métamorphose, frontières linguistiques, communication écrite/orale (IVe-IXe siècles): du latin aux langues romanes. Mélanges de l’école française de Rome, Moyen Age 134(2). 232 p. ISBN 978-2-7283-1608-3. DOI: 10.4000/mefrm.10660
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Luciana Furbetta et Fabio Romanini – Introduzione
Dal latino alle lingue romanze: cronologia, « zone di confine », livelli di competenza linguistica
Fabio Romanini – Considerazioni sull’attualità di Viva voce di Michel Banniard
Michel Banniard – La sociolinguistique diachronique est-elle une métalinguistique ?
Quelques questions de méthode et de terminologie
Alvise Andreose – Pregi e limiti di un approccio metalinguistico al problema della transizione latino-romanz. Considerazioni in margine a Viva voce di Michel Banniar
Comunicazione orizzontale e verticale nell’Occidente latino. Testi, contesti, prospettive
Francesco Lubian – Signata … gesta patrum. Paradigmi veterotestamentari e catechesi per exempla nel Natalicium 8 (= carm., 26 Hartel) di Paolino di Nola
Luciana Furbetta Viva voce nei Libri historiarum di Gregorio di Tours?
La comunicazione scritta e orale nell’Occidente latino dei sec. IV-IX. Strutture e applicazioni
Paolo De Paolis – L’evoluzione dei toponimi fra tardoantico e alto Medioevo
Il caso di Pavia
Jacopo Gesiot – Alcune riflessioni sull’evoluzione del marcatore latino scias tra agiografia latina e volgare
Il caso di sapies nella Legenda aurea catalana
Varia
Guillaume Duperron et Daniel Istria – L’agglomération tardo-antique de Sagone (IVe-première moitié du Ve siècle). Un hub régional sur le littoral corse ?
Adriano Russo – Poesia e politica delle reliquie a Montecassino nell’XI sec. Due carmi per santa Scolastica (BHL 7519-20)
Nicolas Minvielle Larousse – Géographie de la production et réseaux de distribution des métaux précieux au Moyen Âge (XIIIe-XVe siècle). Observations à partir de manuels de marchand italiens
Mariarosaria Salerno – Ab antiquissimis temporibus. Diritti e poteri signorili monastici nel Mezzogiorno tardomedievale. Santo Stefano del Bosco
Pierre-Bénigne Dufouleur – La place des Commentarii dans la mémoire de Pie II et de son pontificat
Philip Kraut. 2023. Die Arbeitsweise der Brüder Grimm. Stuttgart: Hirzel S. Verlag. 353 p. ISBN 978-3-7776-2923-0
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Philip Kraut rekonstruiert die Arbeitsweise der Brüder Grimm auf Grundlage ihrer ungewöhnlich vollständig erhaltenen Zettel- und Materialsammlungen, Notizhefte, Werkmanuskripte und intensiv benutzten Bücher der persönlichen Bibliothek. Er entwirft dadurch auch einen Gesamtüberblick über die Arbeitsmaterialien der Brüder Grimm, die bisher oft nicht einmal genau identifiziert sind. Anhand ausgewählter Dokumente, die im E-Book auch abgebildet sind, beschreibt Kraut die Lektüre, das Abschreiben und Exzerpieren von Quellen, das Formulieren wissenschaftlicher Belege und Argumente genau. Notizen können so von der Buchlektüre bis in die Werkmanuskripte verfolgt werden. Der Arbeitsprozess der Brüder Grimm begann mit topischer Materialsammlung und -ordnung als werkkonstituierender Bedingung ihrer Publikationen. Durch die Rekonstruktion ihrer prototypischen Arbeitspraxis, wie sie zahllose Originalmaterialien der Brüder Grimm in Bibliotheken und Archiven bezeugen, leistet Krauts Studie einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur Geschichte gelehrter Arbeitspraktiken und verdeutlicht den kulturgeschichtlichen Rang der Textsorten Exzerpt, Notizbuch, Werkmanuskript und Druckvorlage.
Driss Ablali & Guy Achard-Bayle, ed. 2023. French theories on text and discourse. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, 473. 296 p. ISBN 9783110794335. DOI: 0.1515/9783110794434
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It could be alleged that present-day French linguistics is characterized by a specific connection between the epistemology of text and that of discourse. The contributions gathered in this volume aim to reconsider this link – or dichotomy? – in light of the latest research developments. They are organized in three parts: the first explores the text-discourse connection, while the second and third tackle the epistemologies of text and discourse.
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