Bonacchi, Silvia & Paola Tenchini, ed. 2026. Gestalt Theory 47(1): Gestalt approach and/in Language Studies. ISSN 0170-057X
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Editorial: Gestalt approach and/in Language Studies
Silvia Bonacchi and Maria Paola Tenchini
A long-lasting Brentanian and Prague connection, around Ehrenfels, about language
Savina Raynaud
Gestalt Psychology and Expressive Language: Before Arnheim
Ian Verstegen
The musical language: Structural analysis in Gestalt perspective
Walter Coppola
Doing More Than One Thing in Saying: A Pluralist Approach to Illocutionary Force
Maria Paola Tenchini
Gestalt-theoretical Joke Analyses
Hellmuth Metz-Göckel
Between morphology and semantics. Determining the meaning of adverbial compounds (avyayībhāva) in the Sanskrit grammatical tradition.
Małgorzata Sulich-Cowley
Parts and wholes in language. The case of semantic underspecification
Lorenzo Cigana
do Nascimento Marques, Raquel, 2026. A configuração do português na gramática setecentista de Contador de Argote. São Paulo: Dialética. 168 p. ISBN 9786527077732
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Este livro trata da gramatização dos idiotismos ou particularidades da língua portuguesa nas duas edições da gramática ‘Regras da lingua portugueza, espelho da lingua latina’, de Dom Jeronymo Contador de Argote, publicadas em 1721 e em 1725. Partimos da hipótese de que os idiotismos, sobre os quais Argote trata, representam o começo da gramatização das características da língua portuguesa. A fim de entender como Argote formulou esta ideia sobre os idiotismos, bem como de perceber a repercussão de suas ideias linguísticas em obras portuguesas posteriores, investigamos o horizonte de retrospecção e o horizonte de projeção deste autor. Como ficou demonstrado, as duas edições da gramática foram importantes para a compreensão da construção do saber linguístico porque gramatizaram pontos específicos do português. Enquanto na primeira edição, Argote apresenta concisamente as características do português; na segunda edição, o gramático explora-os com mais clareza, pois trata de idiotismos morfológicos, sintáticos e semânticos. Dos idiotismos apresentados, alguns já haviam sido gramatizados e outros foram gramatizados pelo próprio autor. Quanto à repercussão de suas ideias linguísticas, alguns idiotismos permaneceram e foram referidos como tais, outros foram incorporados à língua portuguesa, outros desapareceram haja vista a dinamicidade da língua.
Chiocchetti, Leonardo. 2026. Epistemology, Semantics, and Logic in Ancient Greek Grammar: Exploring the Philosophical Underpinnings of Apollonius Dyscolus’ Grammatical Theory. Leyden: Brill (Philosophia Antiqua, 180). xii, 616 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-75786-8
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Was the greatest grammarian of antiquity truly a second-rate Stoic philosopher in disguise? For decades, scholars have seemed to believe so. This book shatters that consensus. By analyzing Apollonius Dyscolus’ core concepts—from proper names to conditionals—this book reveals a thinker far more eclectic and original than previously believed. Apollonius synthesized Stoic, Aristotelian, and Alexandrian ideas to create a unique grammatical project, allowing us to appreciate ancient Greek grammar as a sophisticated semantic theory in its own right—one that pragmatically deploys the philosophical lingua franca of the post-Hellenistic period to solve practical problems of language. This book is an essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how Western linguistic theory truly began.
Kalbarczyk, Nora. 2026. The Philosophy of Language in Islamic Legal Theory: On the Avicennian Classification of Signification in Faḫr ad-dīn ar-Rāzī (d. 1210). Leiden: Brill (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, Volume: 201).xiv, 269 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-73601-6
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In The Philosophy of Language in Islamic Legal Theory Nora Kalbarczyk examines the influential jurisprudential work al-Maḥṣūl fī ʿilm uṣūl al-fiqh (d. 1210). By means of a detailed analysis of the linguistic treatise of this work she highlights the impact of the philosophical tradition on Islamic legal theory (uṣūl al-fiqh) in the so-called post-Avicennian era (11th-14th c.). Her main focus lies on a classification of signification (dalāla) that can be traced back to Ibn Sīnā (lat. Avicenna, d. 1037): a word may signify a meaning by way of congruence (muṭābaqa), containment (taḍammun) or implication (iltizām). The author shows how Faḫr ad-dīn ar-Rāzī develops – on the basis of the Avicennian theory of signification – a hermeneutic toolbox which is not only relevant in the context of Arabic philosophy but also useful for different questions of Islamic legal theory.
Strickland, Lloyd, ed. 2026. Leibniz: Philosophical Papers, 1677–1686. Universal Language, Characteristic, Logic, Encyclopaedia, and General Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 704 p. ISBN 9780198959786
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This volume brings together 124 of Leibniz’s writings on some of his most distinctive and ambitious projects including developing a new logic or art of discovery as a tool for uncovering new truths; creating a universal language with a rational, philosophical grammar structured to reflect human reasoning; designing a symbolic script (the characteristic) to facilitate discoveries across all fields of knowledge; planning an encyclopaedia in which existing knowledge would be systematically arranged to yield new insights; and advancing his vision of a collaborative, higherorder science (the general science) that would encompass the foundational principles of all other sciences.
The writings in this volume trace the evolution and interconnection of these projects during Leibniz’s formative first decade in Hanover (1677–1686), and is the most extensive collection of such writings in English to date. Strickland has returned to Leibniz’s original manuscripts to produce accurate, carefully annotated translations that document textual variations, deletions, and marginalia. Of the 124 texts included, 86 appear here in English for the first time, while five have never been published in any language.
In addition to the translations, the volume features a substantial introductory essay on Leibniz’s life, work, and writings on a universal language, the characteristic, logic, the encyclopaedia, and general science from 1677 to 1686, along with detailed explanatory notes on each text, providing context, background, and the rationale for their dating.
Rastier, François, dir. 2026. IA et culture / AI and Culture. Cahiers de sémiotique des cultures 1(5). 179 p. ISBN 978-2-406-20527-2
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AI and Society or AI and Culture ?
Lia Kurts-Wöste
L’IA générative et la culture
Une introduction
François Rastier
L’ordinaterre, de Von Neumann à Sam Altman
Quand l’armée des nombres dévore la République des Lettres
Jean Rohmer
L’IA, entre remplacement et collaboration
Jean Lassègue et Giuseppe Longo
Sémantique des textes et grands modèles de langage
Marc Cavazza
IA générative et langage simulé
François Rastier
Une autre intelligence artificielle est-elle possible ?
Laurent Vanni et Damon Mayaffre
Génération musicale et intelligence artificielle
Quel est le problème ?
François Pachet
Variation culturelle et fragmentation de l’environnement symbolique
Mathieu Valette
Detey, Sylvain, dir. 2026. Le locuteur natif : linguistique, didactique, social ou politique ? [dossier thématique]. Études de Linguistique Appliquée 221. 129 p. ISBN 9782252049112
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Avant-propos. « Locuteur natif »… entre dictionnaires et stimulations des verbicrucistes
Jean Pruvost
Introduction au locuteur-auditeur natif : qui ne l’est pas ? De la variation à l’appropriation linguistique
Sylvain Detey
Parcours critique sur le locuteur natif chez Chomsky dans son évolution, Jacques Durand
Le locuteur natif dans la linguistique de l’oral à l’aube du XXe siècle
Chantal Lyche
La parole native face à l’IA et la technologie des accents : défis, tensions et illusions
Sylvain Detey, Lionel Fontan
Le locuteur natif : son évaluation sociale de la parole non native en contexte francophone canadien
Suzie Beaulieu, Rachael Lindberg, Kristin Reinke, Pavel Trofimovich
Le locuteur natif, sa parole et son évaluation face à la diversité du monde anglophone : enjeux et perspectives
Talia Isaacs, Priscillia Mollard-Cadix
Le locuteur natif dans la recherche en psycholinguistique : un problème pour les uns l’est-il pour les autres ?
Isabelle Darcy
Le locuteur natif et la langue maternelle au centre d’un débat politique, épistémologique et culturel
Jean-Louis Chiss
Le locuteur natif à l’école en France et le plurilinguisme : nous sommes tous des locuteurs natifs
Nathalie Auger
Le locuteur natif est toujours un locuteur situé : par-delà le sexe, la nationalité et la couleur, ne pas confondre langue et locuteurs, ni son histoire et la leur
Sylvain Detey
History of Humanities 16(1). 2026. ISSN 2379-3163
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Articles
Types of Knowledge: August Wilhelm Schlegel’s Devanagari Font
Martina Palladino
Spiritualism in Plaster: Philosophy, Archaeology, and Figurative Practices in Félix Ravaisson’s Study of the Venus de Milo
Tullio Viola
Historische Übungen and the Making of the Ranke School
Jingjing Yang
Discussion ArticleAgainst Knowledge in the Humanities
Thijs Weststeijn
Review Essay
The Shape of Encounter: Connecting Renaissance and Indigenous Worlds
Andrew Hui
Book Reviews
Ian Stewart, The Celts: A Modern History
Alderik H. Blom
Vera Keller, The Interlopers: Early Stuart Projects and the Undisciplining of Knowledge; Vera Keller, Curating the Enlightenment: Johann Daniel Major and the Experimental Century
Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis
Alexander Statman, A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science
Ori Sela
David Gilks, Quatremère de Quincy: Art and Politics During the French Revolution
Dominique Poulot
Claudia Keller and Christoph Schmälzle, eds., Archäologien der Moderne: Winckelmann um 1900
Koenraad Vos
David Reeve, To Remain Myself: The History of Onghokham
Peter Carey
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