Jon Orman My purpose in this piece is to offer a few brief thoughts on a series of questions with which I have become increasingly interested in recent months. Linguistics, it seems to me, is awash with theories and theoretical…
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Lawyers, Linguists and Truthiness
Douglas Kibbee University of Illinois Are lies information? This was the question before the Supreme Court of Michigan in a 2016 case (People v. Harris, based on a 2009 incident). A police officer was charged with pulling a motorist out…
Making of the Humanities VII, 15â17 November 2018, Amsterdam
The Making of the Humanities VII University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands âThe Making of the Humanitiesâ conference returns to Amsterdam! This is the place where the conference series started in 2008, 10 years ago. The University of Amsterdam will host…
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SHLP6 â Adelaide 13-14 December 2018
UPDATE 28 August 2018: conference program now live We are pleased to announce that the sixth biennial conference of the Society for the History of Linguistics in the Pacific (SHLP) is to be held on December 13th-14th 2018 at the…
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Wilhelm Wundt and the Lautgesetze Controversy
Lia Formigari Sapienza UniversitĂ di Roma A long-dominant historiographical tradition, culminating in Hugo Schuchardt’s essay Ăber die Lautgesetze (1885), depicted the Neogrammarians as the irreducible upholders of the unconditioned validity of phonetic laws. It is my view that, if we…
Tagged with: Lautgesetze, Neogrammarians, sound laws, Wilhelm Wundt
Posted in 19th century, Article, History, Linguistics, Psycholinguistics
Posted in 19th century, Article, History, Linguistics, Psycholinguistics
Program JanuaryâApril 2018
17 January Wilhelm Wundt and the Lautgesetze controversyLia FormigariSapienza UniversitĂ di Roma 31 January âKarte und Gebietâ˛. Die Spatialisierung von Sprache in der Dialektologie des Deutschen von 1918 bis 1955Jan David BraunĂstereichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 14 February Developments in…
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Call for Papers: Kolloquium des Studienkreises Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft 2018
Sprache und Kontext in der Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft 4.â7. Juli 2018 Der âStudienkreis âGeschichte der Sprachwissenschaftââ lädt zu seinem XXIX. Internationalen Kolloquium ein, das von Mittwoch, den 4. Juli (Anreisetag), bis Samstag, den 7. Juli 2018, in Potsdam stattfinden wird.…
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Call for papers: Central Australian Linguistics Circle
Central Australian Linguistics Circle Meeting 5 April 2018 AND Friends of the Strehlow Centre Symposium 6â7 April 2018 âReflecting on the past, making tracks for the futureâ The Symposium reflects on the rich and interesting history of Central Australia which…
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10th Conference of Missionary Linguistics, 21-24 March 2018
10th Conference of Missionary Linguistics 21-24 March 2018, Rome The International Conference on Missionary Linguistics focuses on older texts (colonial, postcolonial, mainly from missionaries) with the following objectives: the history of linguistics, linguistic documentation, translation studies and sociocultural analysis. The…
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Speech act theory and Georg von der Gabelentz
Sven Staffeldt University of WĂźrzburg 1. The modernity of the ancestors There is a trend in linguistics â or maybe even in general â to reclaim the works of older authors. Older authors are sometimes used as sources of information…
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Posted in 19th century, Article, Europe, History, Linguistics, Pragmatics
Posted in 19th century, Article, Europe, History, Linguistics, Pragmatics
