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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – June 2024

Language & History 67(2). 2024. Philosophical Language Schemes: Crossroads for Study, ed. David Cram. Abingdon-on-Thames: Taylor and Francis. Online ISSN: 1759-7544Publisher’s website Philosophical language schemes: crossroads for studyDavid Cram Word as definition. A key principle of the Comenian project for

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – May 2024

Minervini, Laura & Frank Savelsberg, ed. 2024. New Perspectives on Judeo-Spanish and the Linguistic History of the Sephardic Jews. Leiden: Brill. (Brill’s Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture, 41). 335 p. + index. ISBN 978-90-04-68502-4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004685062Publisher’s website At the intersection

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – March 2024

Drechsel, Emanuel J. 2024. Wilhelm von Humboldt and Early American Linguistics: Resources and Inspirations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 346 p. ISBN 9781108966801. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108966801Publisher’s webpage Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835), an early pioneer in the philosophy of language, linguistic and educational theory, was

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – February 2024

Dumarty, Lionel, ed. 2024. Langue idéale, langue réelle. Description et normalisation des langues classiques du IIIe s. av. J.-C. au XIIe s. de notre ère. Turnhout : Brepols. (Corpus Christianorum). 268 p. ISBN 978-2-503-60901-0Publisher’s website Depuis la naissance de la grammaire,

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – January 2024

McElvenny, James. 2024. A History of Modern Linguistics: From the Beginnings to World War II. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 208 p. ISBN 9781474470025Publisher’s website In this book, McElvenny offers a concise history of modern linguistics from its emergence in the

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – December 2023

Garrett, Andrew. 2023. The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall. Language, Memory, and Indigenous California. Cambridge: MIT Press. 472 p. ISBN 9780262547093Publisher’s website In January 2021, at a time when many institutions were reevaluating fraught histories, the University of California removed anthropologist

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – November 2023

Tourette, Eric, ed. 2023. Les idées linguistiques des moralistes. Paris: Honoré Champion (Moralia). 200 p. ISBN 9782745360120Publisher’s website Observer comment vivent les hommes implique d’observer comment ils parlent : il était sans doute inévitable que l’analyse morale se tournât vers

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – October 2023

Dagostino, Carmen, Marianne Mithun & Keren Rice. 2023. The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America: A Comprehensive Guide, Vol 1. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. 767 p. ISBN 9783110597981.Publisher’s website This handbook provides broad coverage of the languages

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – September 2023

Savatovsky, Dan, Mariangela Albano, Thi Kieu Ly Pham & Valérie Spaëth, ed. 2023. Language Learning and Teaching in Missionary and Colonial Contexts. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 496 p. ISBN 9789463728249Publisher’s website This volume assembles texts dedicated to the linguistic and

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – August 2023

Waugh, Linda R., Monique Monville-Burston, John E. Joseph, ed. 2023. The Cambridge History of Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 900 p. ISBN 9780511842788. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9780511842788Publisher’s website The establishment of language as a focus of study took place over many centuries, and

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