Ken Miner University of Kansas (emer.) Esperantism is one of those many small worlds that have more substance to them than outsiders think but less than most insiders think. The twain rarely meet. Much linguistic attention to Esperanto, including almost all…
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Salon: Anachronism in linguistic historiography
Welcome to the first salon. The purpose of our salons is to provide a forum for discussing topics of interest in linguistic historiography and related fields. This salon will focus on ‘anachronism in linguistic historiography’. The discussion opens below with…
Tagged with: anachronism, conceptual history, Ferdinand de Saussure, linguistic historiography, Plato’s Cratylus, salon, word order
Posted in Article, History, Linguistics, Salon
Posted in Article, History, Linguistics, Salon
Hugo Schuchardt and his Network of Knowledge
Johannes Mücke & Silvio Moreira de Sousa [1] Hugo Schuchardt Archiv, University of Graz “Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth.” Frank Zappa (1979) Information: The goal of the project “Network of Knowledge” (runtime 2012-2015,…
Translation as a search for divine meanings: Fray Francisco Blancas de San José and his grammar of the Tagalog language
Marlon James SALES Monash University The pastoral visit of Pope Francis to the Philippines in January 2015, which gathered the biggest crowd ever assembled for a Papal event in history, has put to fore the nexus between translation and religion in…
Tagged with: 17th century, missionary linguistics, Philippines, Tagalog, translation
Posted in 17th century, Article, History, Missionary Linguistics, Philippines, Translation
Posted in 17th century, Article, History, Missionary Linguistics, Philippines, Translation
Le Formalisme russe dans l’histoire de la linguistique
Patrick Flack sdvig press Le Formalisme russe, à bien des égards, constitue un phénomène paradoxal. Il a, c’est bien connu, fourni les fondements d’une approche systématique de la littérature (ou du « langage poétique « ) et contribué à produire une grande partie…
Tagged with: 20th century, formalism, linguistique structurale, Roman Jakobson, Russian formalism, structuralism
Posted in 20th century, Article, Europe, Structuralism
Posted in 20th century, Article, Europe, Structuralism
Sensualism for Dummies
Els Elffers University of Amsterdam 1. From sensualism to intentionalism. Four examples. What do Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920), Jacques van Ginneken (1877-1945), Ernst Cassirer (1894-1945) and Martinus Langeveld (1905-1989) have in common? Apart from the fact that they were all men,…
Tagged with: Ernst Cassirer, intentionalism, Jacob van Ginneken, Karl Bühler, Martinus Langeveld, psycholinguistics, psychology, sensualism, Van Ginneken, Wilhelm Wundt
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, Article, Austria, Europe, Germany, History, Linguistics, Netherlands, Psycholinguistics
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, Article, Austria, Europe, Germany, History, Linguistics, Netherlands, Psycholinguistics
Some Remarks on Objectivity in Pragmatics
Samuel Lewin University of Sydney I Let me start with some background. In recent decades, linguists and philosophers have debated the role played by context in determining what we say, as opposed to what we imply or otherwise mean, when…
Tagged with: Donald Davidson, Grice, meaning, objectivity, pragmatics, Recanati
Posted in Article, Linguistics, Philosophy, Pragmatics, Semantics
Posted in Article, Linguistics, Philosophy, Pragmatics, Semantics
Examining material aspects of manuscripts. Part II: Bindings and provenance
Anna Pytlowany University of Amsterdam This is Part II of a series. Part I is here. At first glance, the history of Dutch East India Company (VOC) linguistics is simply a history of texts. Published or not, edited, translated, or…
Tagged with: 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, Dutch East India Company, history, manuscripts, material history, VOC
Posted in 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, Article, Europe, Linguistics, Netherlands
Posted in 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, Article, Europe, Linguistics, Netherlands
Somewhat caught between lexicology and syntax: a look at Phraseology
Sabine Fiedler University of Leipzig Terminology and characteristics A number of different terms have been used to name the topic of this blog entry. For example, in English, the following expressions are used synonymously: multi-word lexemes, phrasemes, set phrases, prefabricated…
Tagged with: history of phraseology, phraseology
Posted in 20th century, Article, History, Lexicography, Linguistics, Phraseology
Posted in 20th century, Article, History, Lexicography, Linguistics, Phraseology
La aportación de Nicolau Peixoto para el estudio del español en Portugal
Sónia Duarte Centro de Linguística da Universidade do Porto En la historia de la enseñanza/aprendizaje del español en Portugal, Nicolau António Peixoto (?–1862) ocupa un lugar fundamental cuyo significado se procurará precisar aquí, presentando su Grammatica Hespanhola para uso dos Portuguezes (Oporto 1848)…
Tagged with: 19th century, history of linguistics, Nicolau Peixoto, Portugual
Posted in 19th century, Article, Grammars, Portugal
Posted in 19th century, Article, Grammars, Portugal
History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences 