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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – December 2021

Marcin Kilarski. 2021. A History of the Study of the Indigenous Languages of North America. Amsterdam : John Benjamins. Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 129. 443 p. ISBN : 9789027210494Publisher’s website The languages indigenous to North America are

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – Novembre 2021

De Troia Paolo & Otto Zwartjes. 2021. Missionary Linguistics VI. Missionary Linguistics in Asia. Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Rome, 21–24 March 2018. Amsterdam : Benjamins. Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 130. xii,

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Interview 2 : Editing, commenting, translating today linguistic texts of the past. Inverview with Bernard Colombat

Interview prepared by Émilie Aussant, Chloé Laplantine and Rafaello Pisu.Recorded in Paris, on April, 7th, 2021 at Université de Paris by Thomas Zoritchak.Tranlation by Luca Dinu. Subtitles in English are available with this video (click on the “cc” icon at

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – October 2021

Klaas Willems & Cristinel Munteanu, ed. 2021. Eugenio Coseriu. Past, Present and Future. Berlin : De Gruyter. 404 p. SBN: 9783110712339 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110712391 Publisher’s website The volume is published on the occasion of the birth centennial of Eugenio

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – September 2021

James McElvenny & Andrea Ploder, ed. 2021. Holisms of communication: The early history of audio-visual sequence analysis. Berlin : Language Science Press. 268 p. ISBN : 978-3-98554-017-4Publisher’s website  central pillar of contemporary communication research is the analysis of filmed interactions

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Hiphilangsci update summer 2021

Dear colleagues, With the northern summer now in full swing, let us aid in your aestivation with some recent delights from hiphilangsci.net. In the past year we have not only continued our tradition of scholarly blog posts, but also – like

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – July 2021

Christelle Dodane & Claudia Schweitzer, dir. 2021. Histoire de la description de la parole : de l’introspection à l’instrumentation. Paris : Champion. Bibliothèque de grammaire et de linguistique, 65. 406 p. ISBN : 9782745355959 Publisher’s website L’objectif de ce livre

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – June 2021

Velmezova, Ekaterina, ed. 2020. La Discussion Linguistique de 1950: 70 Ans Après [Epistemologica et Historiographica Linguistica Lausannensia 2]. Faculté des lettres, UNIL & Индрик. Lausanne & Moscou. 194 p. ISBN : 978-5-91674-626-6Publisher’s website The authors of the volume – researchers

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – May 2021

Maupas, Charles. 2021. Grammaire et syntaxe françoise. Édition de Nathalie Fournier. Paris : Classiques Garnier. (Descriptions et théories de la langue française, 4, in Grammaires françaises des xviie et xviiie siècles, 2). 637 p. ISBN : 978-2-406-10455-1Publisher’s website La Grammaire

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Interview 1 : The Owl of Minerva takes flight only when dusk begins to gather”: Inverview with Sylvain Auroux

Interview conducted in Lyon, on March 10th, 2021 by Chloé Laplantine.Film directed by Emilie Aussant, Chloé Laplantine and Rafaello Pisu.Translation by Andrew Eastman.Music from Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Les Indes galantes (interpreted by Les Arts Florissants, at the Philarmonie de Paris). The

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