[Program updated 16 February 2017] 16February La langue de Boas. Quelques remarques à propos de l’écriture de Franz Boas.Chloé LaplantineLaboratoire d’Histoire des Théories Linguistiques CNRS-Université Paris Diderot 7March The Prague Linguistic Circle and the analogy between musicology and linguisticsBart KarstensUniversity…
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Program September-December 2016
Updated: 27 November 2016 7September The Chilean Academy of the Spanish Language: the institutionalization of a discourse community.Darío RojasUniversity of Chile 28September Ludwig Noiré and the Debate on Language Origins in the 19th CenturyJacopo D’AlonzoSorbonne Nouvelle & Sapienza Università di…
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Christian Karl Reisig as an upholder of philosophical linguistics in 19th century Germany
Jacques François Université de Caen & CNRS In his introduction (p.6-18) to the Vorlesungen über lateinische Sprachwissenschaft (Lectures on Latin Linguistics, 1839), Christian Karl Reisig offered a philosophically grounded account of the epistemology of language as a Prinzipienwissenschaft (“Science of…
Tagged with: Humboldt, Karl Reisig, semantics, semasiology
Posted in 19th century, Europe, Germany, History, Linguistics, Pragmatics, Semantics
Posted in 19th century, Europe, Germany, History, Linguistics, Pragmatics, Semantics
Program February-June 2016
17February Networking and obstacles to the development of the language sciences as reflected in the correspondence of Rodolfo Lenz and Hugo Schuchardt.Silvio Moreira de Sousa and Johannes MückeHugo Schuchardt Archive, University of Graz 10March Aree, volumi e spazi: la geometria…
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Society for the History of Linguistics in the Pacific SHLP5
Call for Papers 5-7 September 2016, Universität Potsdam [Program now available: https://hiphilangsci.net/shlp-5-program/ ] The fifth biennial conference of the Society for the History of Linguistics in the Pacific will be held in Potsdam, Germany, 5-7 September 2016. With a strong…
Tagged with: SHLP2016, SHLP5, Society for the History of Linguistics in the Pacific
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Vivien Law Essay Prize 2015
The Vivien Law Prize is offered annually by the Henry Sweet Society for the best essay in the history of linguistic ideas. The competition is open to all currently registered students, and to scholars who have received their PhD or…
John Stoddart’s The Philosophy of Language: the “last truly universalist work”
Joseph L. Subbiondo California Institute of Integral Studies Introduction Sir John Stoddart (1773-1856) served as England’s advocate in Malta from 1803-1807, editor of The Times from 1814 to 1816, founder and editor of The New Times from 1816 to 1826,…
Tagged with: John Stoddart, universal grammar, William Hazlitt
Posted in 18th century, 19th century, History, Philosophy
Posted in 18th century, 19th century, History, Philosophy
Program August-December 2015
[Updated 16 September 2015] 5August Esperanto: some observations of a speaker-linguistKen MinerUniversity of Kansas 19August John Stoddart’s The Philosophy of Language: the “last truly universalist work”Joseph SubbiondoCalifornia Institute of Integral Studies 2September Las disciplinas lingüísticas en la España decimonónica: Julián…
Salon: Anachronism in linguistic historiography
Welcome to the first salon. The purpose of our salons is to provide a forum for discussing topics of interest in linguistic historiography and related fields. This salon will focus on ‘anachronism in linguistic historiography’. The discussion opens below with…
Tagged with: anachronism, conceptual history, Ferdinand de Saussure, linguistic historiography, Plato’s Cratylus, salon, word order
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Posted in History, Linguistics, Salon
Sensualism for Dummies
Els Elffers University of Amsterdam 1. From sensualism to intentionalism. Four examples. What do Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920), Jacques van Ginneken (1877-1945), Ernst Cassirer (1894-1945) and Martinus Langeveld (1905-1989) have in common? Apart from the fact that they were all men,…
Tagged with: Ernst Cassirer, intentionalism, Jacob van Ginneken, Karl Bühler, Martinus Langeveld, psycholinguistics, psychology, sensualism, Van Ginneken, Wilhelm Wundt
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, Austria, Europe, Germany, History, Linguistics, Netherlands, Psycholinguistics
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, Austria, Europe, Germany, History, Linguistics, Netherlands, Psycholinguistics
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