Podcast episode 57: Brigitte Nerlich

In this interview, we talk to Brigitte Nerlich about her career in the history of linguistics and the public understanding of science

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Intro and outro: Jean Ferrat, “Un cheval fou dans un grand magasin

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References for Episode 57

Bréal, M. (1897). Essai de Sémantique: Science des significations. Paris: Hachette.

Gardiner, A. H. (1932). The Theory of Speech and Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Harris, R. (1980). The Language-Makers. London: Duckworth.

Harris, R. (1981). The Language Myth. London: Duckworth.

Harris, R. (1990). Language, Saussure and Wittgenstein: How to play games with words. London: Psychology Press.

Lakoff, G. and Johnson, M. (1980). Metaphors we Live By. Chicago: Chicago University Press.

Nerlich, B. (1983). Le même et l’autre. Le problème de l’identité en linguistique chez Saussure et Wittgenstein. Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure 37, 13-34.

Nerlich, B. (1986). La linguistique de Philipp Wegener. Une théorie du dialogue. DRLAV. Revue de Linguistique 34-35, 301-315.


Nerlich, B. (1986). La pragmatique: Tradition ou révolution dans l’histoire de la linguistique française?. Frankfurt/Bern/New York: Verlag Peter Lang.

Nerlich, B. (1990). Change in Language: Whitney, Bréal and Wegener. London: Routledge.

Nerlich, B. (1992). Semantic Theories in Europe, 1830-1930. From etymology to contextuality. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Nerlich, B. (1998). La métaphore et le métonymie: Aux sources rhétoriques des théories sémantiques modernes. Sémiotiques 14, 143-170.

Nerlich, B. and Clarke, D. D. (1996). Language, Action, and Context: The early history of pragmatics in Europe and America, 1780-1930. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Nerlich, B., & Clarke, D. D. (2001). Mind, meaning and metaphor: The philosophy and psychology of metaphor in 19th-century Germany. History of the Human Sciences14(2), 39-61.

Nerlich, B. and Clarke, D. D. (2007). Cognitive linguistics and the history of linguistics. In: The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics, edited by D. Geeraerts and H. Cuyckens. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Searle, J. (1969). Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Wegener, P. (1885). Untersuchungen über die Grundfragen des Sprachlebens. Halle: Niemeyer.

Wunderli, P. (1981). Saussure-Studien: Exegetische und wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zum Werk von F. de Saussure. Tübingen: Günter Narr.

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