Jacques François University of Caen-Normandy http://www.interlingua.fr 1. A forgotten German Enlightenment philosopher Johann Christoph Adelung (1732–1806) was one of the main promoters of the Volksaufklärung (popular Enlightenment) in the vein of Christian Wolff, eager to synthetize what the broad cultivated…
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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…
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Posted in 19th century, Article, Europe, Germany, History, Linguistics, Pragmatics, Semantics
Posted in 19th century, Article, Europe, Germany, History, Linguistics, Pragmatics, Semantics
History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences 