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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – December 2022

Michaël Crevoisier & Aurélien Galateau, ed. 2022. Langage et Idéologie. Penser le devenir de la langue avec Klemperer. Nice : Éditions Unes. Unes Idée. 184 p. ISBN 978-2-87704-251-2,Publisher’s website Depuis une vingtaine d’années, on commence à mieux connaître en France

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – November 2022

Lorenzo Cigana. 2022. Hjelmslev e la teoria delle correlazioni linguistiche. Roma: Carocci. Biblioteca di testi e studi. 344 p. ISBN: 9788829017089Publisher’s website Il volume traccia la genesi e lo sviluppo della teoria delle correlazioni linguistiche di Louis Hjelmslev, uno dei più importanti

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences — October 2022

Janette Friedrich, ed. 2022. Karl Bühler und das Wiener Psychologische Institut. Dokumente und Fundstücke. Herausgegeben, zusammengestellt und kommentiert von Janette Friedrich. Lausanne: sdvig press. Bühleriana 1. 390 p. ISBN: 9782970082958Publisher’s website Mit dem Band Karl Bühler und das Wiener Psychologische

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – September 2022

Mariana Münning. 2022. Sound, Meaning, Shape. The Phonologist Wei Jiangong (1901-1980) between Language Study and Language Planning. Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing. 312 p. ISBN: 9783948791292Publisher’s website. One of the leading proponents of the radical linguistic reforms in 20th century China,

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences-July-August 2022

Didier Samain & Pierre-Yves Testenoire, ed. 2022. La linguistique et ses formes historiques d’organisation et de production. Paris: SHESL. HEL Livres 1. 336 p. ISBN : 979-10-91587-16-7. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6675029Publisher’s website La production et la transmission des savoirs scientifiques s’effectuent par

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences-June 2022

Giuseppe Cosenza, Claire A. Forel, Genoveva Puskas & Thomas Robert, ed. 2022. Saussure and Chomsky. Converging and Diverging. Lausanne: Peter Lang. 172 p. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3726/b19300Publisher’s website Saussure and Chomsky, the two major figures in linguistics of the twentieth century and

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – May 2022

Roger Schöntag. 2022. Das Verständnis von Vulgärlatein in der Frühen Neuzeit vor dem Hintergrund der questione della lingua. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag. 761 p. ISBN: 978-3-8233-8540-0Publisher’s webiste Die sprachliche Verwandtschaft zwischen Latein und Italienisch waren im Mittelalter nur vage bekannt.

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – April 2022

Camille Joseph & Isabelle Kalinowski. 2022. La Parole inouïe. Franz Boas et les textes indiens. Toulouse: Anacharsis. 198 p. ISBN: 9791027904365Publisher’s website Franz Boas (1858-1942) est considéré comme le père fondateur de l’anthropologie américaine. Par-delà de vastes collectes d’objets, il

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – March 2022

Antoinina Bevan Zlatar, Mark Ittensohn, Enit Karafili Steiner & Olga Timofeeva, ed. 2021. Words, Books, Images, and the Long Eighteenth Century. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 16. 252 pp. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.16Publisher’s website The essays collected in this

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – December 2021

Marcin Kilarski. 2021. A History of the Study of the Indigenous Languages of North America. Amsterdam : John Benjamins. Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 129. 443 p. ISBN : 9789027210494Publisher’s website The languages indigenous to North America are

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