Jacques François University of Caen-Normandy http://www.interlingua.fr 1. A forgotten German Enlightenment philosopher Johann Christoph Adelung (1732â1806) was one of the main promoters of the VolksaufklĂ€rung (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 UniversitĂ© de Caen & CNRS In his introduction (p.6-18) to the Vorlesungen ĂŒber 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
History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences 