Sven Staffeldt University of Würzburg 1. The modernity of the ancestors There is a trend in linguistics – or maybe even in general – to reclaim the works of older authors. Older authors are sometimes used as sources of information…
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Speech act theory and Georg von der Gabelentz
Tagged with: Gabelentz, pragmatics, speech act theory
Posted in 19th century, Europe, History, Linguistics, Pragmatics
Posted in 19th century, Europe, History, Linguistics, Pragmatics
Praxeology and language: Social science as the study of human action
Daniel W. Hieber University of California, Santa Barbara danielhieber.com Introduction Since the formulation and elaboration of speech act theory by Grice (1957; 1969), Austin (1962) and Searle (1962) as part of the ordinary language movement in philosophy,[1] the linguistics community has…
Tagged with: Austrian school, Ludwig von Mises, ordinary language philosophy, philosophy of linguistics, pragmatics, praxeology, sociocultural linguistics
Posted in Linguistics, Philosophy, Pragmatics
Posted in Linguistics, Philosophy, Pragmatics
The utility of constructed languages
A.W. Carus Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU, Munich The question how language, a sequence of events in spacetime, can have meaning — which seems not to be in spacetime — has puzzled philosophers since antiquity, though it only came…
Tagged with: constructed languages
Posted in Constructed languages, Linguistics, Philosophy, Pragmatics
Posted in Constructed languages, Linguistics, Philosophy, Pragmatics
The secret history of grammaticalization
James McElvenny Universität Potsdam Research into grammaticalization has an established pedigree, first certified by Lehmann (2015[1982]: 1-9) and confirmed, with various additions, by Heine et al (1991: 5-23) and Hopper & Traugott (2003[1993]: 19-38).[1] The standard genealogy records the birth…
Tagged with: aesthetics, agglutination, Gabelentz, grammaticalization, Heine, Hopper and Traugott, idealism, Lehmann, Meillet, positivism, Vossler
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, Europe, History, Linguistics, Pragmatics, Semantics
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, Europe, History, Linguistics, Pragmatics, Semantics
Christian Karl Reisig as an upholder of philosophical linguistics in 19th century Germany
Jacques François Université de Caen & CNRS In his introduction (p.6-18) to the Vorlesungen über 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…
Tagged with: Humboldt, Karl Reisig, semantics, semasiology
Posted in 19th century, Europe, Germany, History, Linguistics, Pragmatics, Semantics
Posted in 19th century, Europe, Germany, History, Linguistics, Pragmatics, Semantics
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 Linguistics, Philosophy, Pragmatics, Semantics
Posted in Linguistics, Philosophy, Pragmatics, Semantics
