Zwartjes, Otto, ed. 2025. The History of Chinese Linguistics in East and West. [Special issue] Historiographia Linguistica 51(1-3). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 385 p. ISSN 0302-5160.
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Introduction
The history of Chinese linguistics in East and West
Otto Zwartjes
Articles – Aufsätze
Misquoting the ancients: Editorial practices in the Kangxi zidian
Imre Galambos
“Este diccionario es su uso para leer libros”: The Vocabolarium Sinense–Hispanicum at the Biblioteca Universitaria di Genova
Daniele Quaggiotto
Exploring Chinese compound words in the anonymous Breve compendio del vocabulario de compuestos en lengua mandarina and other Western missionary dictionaries
Zuo Lu & Otto Zwartjes
Mapping the world through lexicography: A preliminary study on toponyms in Brollo’s Dictionarium sinico-latinum
Erica Cecchetti & Gabriele Tola
The case of rén 仁 in early Chinese-European dictionaries: Implications for the comparative study of a specific entry
Mattia Marconi & Emanuele Raini
José Monteiro’s Vera, et unica praxis: A seventeenth-century Jesuit primer for the learning of Mandarin Chinese and a later version
Cristina Costa Gomes & Isabel Murta Pina
The Bocabulario de la Lengua Sangleya por las Letraz de el A.B.C. (Manila, ca. 1617): Structure, contents, function
Hans-Jörg Döhla
The Arte Sangley in the archives of the University of Santo Tomás in Manila
Daniele Quaggiotto
The connection between the Thesaurus rarissimus (Marsh 111) and the Dictionnaire Chinois & François (1670), the first printed Chinese dictionary in Europe
Rui Li
Interwoven processes in linguistic historiography: An integrated perspective on the history of Chinese language studies in Europe
Henning Klöter
The encounter of English and Chinese lexicographical traditions: A genealogical study of Wilhelm Lobscheid’s English and Chinese Dictionary (1866–1869)
Rui Li
The didactic features of James Summers’s (1828–1891) research on Chinese
Wei Chen
Izquierdo, Adrian, ed. 2025. Polyglot Texts and Translations in Early Modern Europe. Leyden: Brill (Approaches to Translation Studies Online, 53). xii, 292 p. ISBN 978-90-04-69555-9
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Early modern culture was multilingual, and so were many of the works produced across Europe and beyond its borders. The contributors to this volume draw new interrelations between different humanistic traditions and multilingual and translational writing practices using a wide range of primary sources—documents produced in Norwich, scientific treatises by Galileo and Stevin, travel accounts and dictionaries by James Howell, translations an retranslations of Antoine de Nervèze’s moral letters, Aljamiado documents and short comic plays in Spain, Jesuit pedagogical theater in New France, grammars, dictionaries and historiographical accounts in missionary contexts, and a mining law code in South Central Europe—that highlight the significance of polyglossia in early modern cultural production and transmission. Covering a wide range of languages, including Latin, Nahuatl and Turkish, their analysis invites comparison with today’s polyglot practices in a globalized world, as we also adapt to new technologies and ever-changing realities.
Hjelmslev, Louis. 2025. La categoria dei casi. Studio di grammatica generale. A cura di Lorenzo Cigana, in collaborazione con Massimo Picciarelli, con Postfazione di Emanuele Fadda. Nova Ligure: Edizioni dell’Orso (Lingua e Società. Percorsi di studio, 17).xxiv+236 p. ISBN 978-88-3613-576-9
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La Categoria dei casi, pubblicato in due volumi nel 1935 e nel 1937, è uno dei pochi lavori applicati di Louis Hjelmslev. In tale opera il linguista danese condensa una serie di problemi linguistici, tipologici, semantici ed epistemologici che sarebbero confluiti nella teoria generale del linguaggio nota come “glossematica”. I problemi discussi e l’approccio adottato in tale contributo lo rendono uno dei lavori più teoricamente densi dell’analisi comparata e generale dei casi grammaticali. Tale rilevanza, che oltrepassa l’interesse meramente storiografico, richiede e giustifica l’apprensione completa dell’opera. Questa nuova edizione presenta per la prima volta il testo integrale dell’opera al pubblico italiano, nell’auspicio di renderne pienamente apprezzabile il sottile equilibrio tra schematismo astratto e istanza empirica che caratterizza l’approccio di Hjelmslev.
Wapy, Jean de. 2025 [1634]. Les remarques sur la langue francoise. Edition de Douglas A Kibbee. Paris: Classiques Garnier (Descriptions et théories de la langue française, 8). 206 p. ISBN 978-2-406-18607-6
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La langue standard du français s’est créée dans les salons des années 1620 et 1630. Le genre « remarques sur la langue française » est né de ces débats. Le premier remarqueur fut Jean de Wapy, un imprimeur verdunois. Les Remarques signe une étape importante de l’évolution du français standard.
Joseph, John E., ed. 2025. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Saussure. New York: Bloomsbury. 416 p. ISBN 9781350379787
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For linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure is the defining figure of its modern period. For semiotics too he is the founding figure within Europe, alongside Peirce in America. Yet Saussure’s influence reaches far beyond linguistics and semiotics, through the structuralism which his teaching inspired in the decades following his death, and even the post-structuralism which followed it. With chapters written by leading scholars from across the world, this detailed and comprehensive volume charts the significance of Saussure’s work across the wide range of fields in which it had an impact, providing a thorough understanding, and the definitive guide to, his ideas and legacy.
Divided into four parts, the book first explores Saussure’s life and career, including his published and unpublished work. Part Two is devoted to the Course in General Linguistics, which is dissected across five chapters to offer a highly detailed account of the most important book within modern linguistics. Part Three traces the Course and its leading ideas across the ensuing decades, as Saussure became the acknowledged founding figure not just of modern linguistics and semiotics, but of a structuralism which was not limited by academic field. Lastly, Part Four highlights key themes and topics for close attention, offering an even greater depth of insight into the life, work and reception of Saussure.
Bordas, Éric, ed. 2025. Le XIXᵉ siècle en ses langages. Mélanges en l’honneur de Jacques-Philippe Saint-Gérand. Paris: Classiques Garnier (Rencontres, 663). 739 p. ISBN 978-2-406-17902-3
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Les travaux de Jacques-Philippe Saint-Gérand font référence en ce qu’ils ont appris à des générations de chercheurs à contextualiser historiquement avec précision les réalisations langagières des grands auteurs du romantisme, mais également les discours grammairiens et lexicographiques d’époque. Un ensemble de collègues ont voulu lui dire leur reconnaissance et leur amitié.
Ducos, Joëlle & Fleur Vigneron, ed. 2025. La science par les mots ou comment former une terminologie scientifique au Moyen Âge [dossier thématique]. Cahiers de lexicologie 126. 266 p. ISBN 978-2-406-18676-2
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La science par les mots ou comment former une terminologie scientifique au Moyen Âge
Présentation
Joëlle Ducos
De la diachronie aux diachronies en langues de spécialité : quelques éléments de réflexions
Aurélie Picton & Pascaline Dury
La terminologie avant la lettre
John Humbley
Les emprunts dans les terminologies émergentes du français médiéval : techniques de méta-information
Esme Winter-Froemel
Desiderium, appetitus et voluntas entre médecine et philosophie naturelle
Laetitia Loviconi
La naissance du vocabulaire astronomico-astrologique en ancien français : esquisse de mise au point
Jean-Patrice Boudet
La naissance du vocabulaire botanique en ancien français
Fleur Vigneron, Sandrine Hériché Pradeau, Cécile Rochelois & Émilie Demouselle
Une discipline par ses mots : la physique de l’âme en français au tournant du xviie siècle
Violaine Giacomotto-Charra
Lexicographie, réfection morphologique et chaînons manquants (lexique médical français)
Isabelle Vedrenne-Fajolles
Fasciolo, Marco & Franck Neveu, dir. 2025. Décrire une langue. Objectifs et méthodes. Paris: Classiques Garnier (Rencontres, 670). 515 p. ISBN 978-2-406-17862-0
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Ce volume propose des pistes de réflexion sur l’épistémologie générale de la linguistique, et sur les outils théoriques et descriptifs qui lui confèrent sa consistance scientifique.
Charaudeau, Patrick. 2025. Qu’est-ce que le français ? Mythes et réalités. Paris : Classiques Garnier (Domaines linguistiques, 26). 159 p. ISBN 978-2-406-18283-2
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On dit que le français est universel, qu’il est envahi par l’anglais, qu’il faut réformer son orthographe. On dit aussi qu’il discrimine, qu’il faut en modifier les formes d’expression. Quelle est la part de mythe et de réalité qui s’attache à la langue française ? C’est ce que cet opuscule tente d’élucider.
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