Jean-Michel Fortis UniversitĂ© Paris Diderot The motivation for writing this post is twofold: first, there is still something to be said about the origins of the notion of family resemblance and its application to semantics, most notably in the version…
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Family resemblance and semantics: the vagaries of a not so new concept
Tagged with: Aristotle, cognitive linguistics, cognitive semantics, family resemblances, Lakoff, prototype theory, Rosch, Wittgenstein
Posted in 20th century, Article, Cognitive Linguistics, Europe, History, Linguistics, Semantics
Posted in 20th century, Article, Cognitive Linguistics, Europe, History, Linguistics, Semantics
Sapir’s form-feeling and its aesthetic background
Jean-Michel Fortis Laboratoire dâhistoire des thĂ©ories linguistiques, UniversitĂ© Paris-Diderot I find that what I most care for is beauty of form, whether in substance or, perhaps even more keenly, in spirit. A perfect style, a well-balanced system of philosophy, a…
Tagged with: 19th century, 20th century, aesthetics, Edward Sapir, FormgefĂŒhl, history of linguistics, Sapir
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, America, Article, Europe, Germany, History, Linguistics
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, America, Article, Europe, Germany, History, Linguistics
Bloomfield : Du mentalisme au behaviorisme
Jean-Michel Fortis Laboratoire dâhistoire des thĂ©ories linguistiques, UniversitĂ© Paris-Diderot On peut sâinterroger sur lâĂ©volution qui voit Bloomfield passer de la psychologie Ă dominante wundtienne, qui imprĂšgne son Introduction de 1914, au behaviorisme, et dâune linguistique âmentalisteâ Ă une linguistique psycho-abstinente…
Tagged with: behaviourism, history of structuralism, Leonard Bloomfield, linguistics, mentalism, psychology, Wilhelm Wundt
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, America, Article, History, Linguistics, Structuralism
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, America, Article, History, Linguistics, Structuralism
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