Am 4. und 5. Februar 2021 fand an der Sigmund Freud PrivatuniversitĂ€t Wien ein internationaler Workshop zu Karl BĂŒhler und der Geschichte des Wiener Psychologischen Institutes statt, der von Janette Friedrich und Gerhard Benetka geleitet wurde.
Janette Friedrich und Gerhard Benetka haben nun einen Podcast veröffentlicht, der die Resultate des Workshops vermittelt. Unten können Sie den Podcast abspielen. Die Audiodatei und weitere Informationen stehen auf der Webseite des Workshops zur VerfĂŒgung.
De Troia Paolo & Otto Zwartjes. 2021. Missionary Linguistics VI. Missionary Linguistics in Asia. Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Rome, 21â24 March 2018. Amsterdam : Benjamins. Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 130. xii, 296 p. ISBN : 9789027210043 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.1075/sihols.130 Publisher’s website
This is the sixth volume to be dedicated to the pioneering linguistic work produced by missionaries in Asia. This volume presents research into the documentation, study and description of Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese and Tamil. It provides a selection of papers which primarily concentrate on the Society of Jesus and their linguistic production, but also covers linguistic works written by Franciscans, the Order of Discalced Carmelites and works of other religious institutions, such as the Propaganda Fide and the Missions ĂtrangĂšres de Paris. New insights are provided regarding these works and their reception among European scholars interested in these âexoticâ languages and cultures. Each text is placed in its historical context and various approaches to some of the most important descriptive problems faced by these linguists avant la lettre are analyzed, such as the establishment of an adequate romanization system, the description of typological features of these Asian languages, such as tonality and aspiration in Chinese and Vietnamese, agglutination and derivational morphology in Japanese and Tamil, and, pragmatics, in particular politeness in Japanese. This volume not only looks at methodology and descriptive techniques, but also comments on missionary linguistic policies in Asia and offers articles of interest to historiographers of linguistics, historians, typologists, descriptive linguists and those interested in translation studies.
In this episode, we look at the central role the analysis of meaning played in British linguistics in the first half of the twentieth century. We focus on the work of John Rupert Firth (1890â1960) and BronisĆaw Malinowski (1884â1942) and their varying versions of the ‘context of situation’.
The volume is published on the occasion of the birth centennial of Eugenio Coseriu (1921â2002). It is the first collective volume to appear in English in which various scholars present a variety of perspectives on Coseriuâs scholarly work and discuss its continuing relevance for the language sciences. Coseriuâs international reputation has suffered from his commitment to publish in languages such as Spanish, German, French, Italian, Romanian and Portuguese, to the detriment of English. As a consequence, his work is less well-known outside Romance and German linguistics. The volume aims to raise the general awareness of Coseriuâs work among linguists around the world, in accordance with Coseriuâs own adage that it takes a constructive mindset (acknowledging “accomplishments and limitations”) to do justice to all scholarly work in the humanities. The articles are organized into three major thematic clusters: 1) philosophy of language, 2) history of the language sciences and 3) theory and practice of “Integral Linguistics”. The volume is essential reading for anyone working in these fields and for those seeking to gain deeper understanding of Coseriuâs goal to develop a unitary approach to language which takes as its point of departure the “activity of speaking”.
James McElvenny & Andrea Ploder, ed. 2021. Holisms of communication: The early history of audio-visual sequence analysis. Berlin : Language Science Press. 268 p. ISBN : 978-3-98554-017-4 Publisher’s website
central pillar of contemporary communication research is the analysis of filmed interactions between people. The techniques employed in such analysis first took on a recognizably modern form in the 1970s, but their roots go back to the earliest days of motion picture technology in the late nineteenth century. This book presents original essays accompanied by written responses which together create a dialogue exploring early efforts at audio-visual sequence analysis and their common goal to capture the “whole” of the communicative situation.
The first three chapters of this volume look at the film-based research of Gestalt psychologists in Berlin as well as psychologists in the orbit of Karl and Charlotte BĂŒhler in Vienna in the first decades of the twentieth century. Most of these figures â along with many other Central European scholars of this era â were driven into exile in the United States after the rise of National Socialism in the 1930s. This scientific migration led to the cross-pollination of communication studies in America, an outcome visible in the leading project in interaction research of the mid-twentieth century, the Natural History of an Interview. The following two chapters examine this project in its historical context. The volume closes with a critical edition of a treasure from the archives: the transcript of a speech delivered by Ray Birdwhistell, a key participant in the Natural History of an Interview project and founder of kinesics.
With the northern summer now in full swing, let us aid in your aestivation with some recent delights from hiphilangsci.net. In the past year we have not only continued our tradition of scholarly blog posts, but also â like many in this age of lockdowns and quarantine â finally embraced the retrofuturistic dream of videophones and teleconferences. Join us on our audio-visual adventures in videos and podcasts.
History of Linguistics in East and South-East Asia Quang Anh Le, Time-marking particles and the problem of grammatical categorisation in Vietnamese: From French colonialism to the post-Cold War era Edward McDonald, Ma Jianzhong and the perils of being a pioneer
History of Linguistics in Australia Jane Simpson, Grammars for analysis, grammars for learners William McGregor, From Herman Nekes notebooks to Nekes & Worms 1853 David Moore, Developments in grammatical analysis of Central Australian languages 1890â1910
Through short talks and interviews, the hiphilangsci podcast offers an overview of some of the main currents in disciplinary linguistics from the nineteenth century to the present. So far weâve made it to the early twentieth century, and weâll continue our journey with new episodes after the northern summer.
Christelle Dodane & Claudia Schweitzer, dir. 2021. Histoire de la description de la parole : de l’introspection Ă l’instrumentation.Paris : Champion. BibliothĂšque de grammaire et de linguistique, 65. 406 p. ISBN : 9782745355959 Publisher’s website
History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences 