On 8â11 June 2022, the 31st International Colloquium of the âStudienkreis âGeschichte der Sprachwissenschaftââ (SGdS) on Language and Language Awareness in the History of Linguistics will take place at the Europa-Universität Flensburg. The choice of topics may range from antiquity…
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CfP: Colloquium Studienkreis Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft, Flensburg 8â11 June 2022
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CfP: Henry Sweet Society Colloquium Leuven 2022
The 2022 annual colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas will be held from Tuesday 20 September until Thursday 22 September 2022 at the University of Leuven (Belgium). The general theme of the colloquium is: …
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Podcast zum Wiener BĂźhler-Workshop 2021
Am 4. und 5. Februar 2021 fand an der Sigmund Freud Privatuniversität Wien ein internationaler Workshop zu Karl BĂźhler und der Geschichte des Wiener Psychologischen Institutes statt, der von Janette Friedrich und Gerhard Benetka geleitet wurde. Janette Friedrich und Gerhard…
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CfP: Abralin International Congress, 22â30 Sept 2021
The main theme of InterAb 12 will be âLinguistics Challenges in Open Scienceâ. This edition will be completely online. Proposals in all areas of linguistics are welcome. Papers covering the main theme will be considered for keynote. All InterAb12 activities…
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Public talk online: The âPoliticalâ and the Language-Dialect Dichotomy, or Fact-Checking Noam Chomsky
Monday 21 June 2021, 11:00am CEST The âPoliticalâ and the Language-Dialect Dichotomy, or Fact-Checking Noam Chomsky Alexander Maxwell (Victoria University of Wellington) In this talk, Alexander Maxwell suggests that linguists pondering the language-dialect dichotomy fall into two schools: apolitical agnostics who…
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John Goldsmith â Battle in the Mind Fields
John Goldsmith (University of Chicago) has made a series of 10 videos â one for each chapter â about the book Battle in the Mind Fields, which he wrote with Bernard Laks (University of Paris) and published in 2019. A…
Workshop: Language in the Global History of Knowledge, 29â30 April 2021
KU Leuven (online), 29â30 April 2021https://relicta.org/lghk/index.html This workshop discusses various ways in which language and the study of language figured in the global history of knowledge, from the 16th to the early 20th century. In the expanding network of mercantile,…
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History of Linguistics in East and South-East Asia
Below are two talks originally presented at the meeting of the Society for the History of Linguistics in the Pacific, December 2020, on the history of the grammatical description of Vietnamese and Chinese. Quang Anh Le, Time-marking particles and the…
History of Linguistics in Australia
The following are a selection of three talks on the history of linguistics in Australia originally delivered at the meeting of the Society for the History of Linguistics in the Pacific, December 2020. Jane Simpson, Grammars for analysis, grammars for…
The Facts of Whorfâs Hopi Research
In this talk, Penny Lee presents some preliminary results from her research into the personal diaries of Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897â1941).
History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences 