In this episode, we enter the age of classical structuralism by exploring the phonological research of Roman Jakobson and his colleague Nikolai Trubetzkoy undertaken within the Prague Linguistic Circle.
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Maupas, Charles. 2021. Grammaire et syntaxe françoise. Édition de Nathalie Fournier. Paris : Classiques Garnier. (Descriptions et théories de la langue française, 4, in Grammaires françaises des xviie et xviiie siècles, 2). 637 p. ISBN : 978-2-406-10455-1
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La Grammaire & syntaxe françoise de Charles Maupas (1607 et 1618) se signale par sa puissance théorique, son caractère méthodique et sa fine observation de l’usage du français. Cette édition critique entend montrer en quoi elle est un jalon décisif dans la jeune tradition grammaticale du français.
Chiflet, R. P. Laurent. 2021 [1659]. Essay d’une parfaite grammaire de la langue françoise. Édition de Cendrine Pagani-Naudet. Paris : Classiques Garnier (Grammaires françaises des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, 3, in Descriptions et théories de la langue française 5). 525 p. ISBN : 978-2-406-10458-2
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Interview, 1 : The Owl of Minerva takes flight only when dusk begins to gather”: Inverview with Sylvain Auroux
Interview conducted in Lyon, on March 10th, 2021 by Chloé Laplantine.
Film directed by Emilie Aussant, Chloé Laplantine and Rafaello Pisu.
Translation by Andrew Eastman.
Music from Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Les Indes galantes (interpreted by Les Arts Florissants, at the Philarmonie de Paris).
The text of the interview has been edited in a bilingual version French / English, available here.
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John Goldsmith – Battle in the Mind Fields
John Goldsmith (University of Chicago) has made a series of 10 videos – one for each chapter – about the book Battle in the Mind Fields, which he wrote with Bernard Laks (University of Paris) and published in 2019. A French version (Aux origines des sciences humaines: Linguistique, philosophie, logique, psychologie 1840–1940) is coming out from Gallimard in fall 2021.
You can find the first of John’s videos embedded below and all ten up on his YouTube channel.
Les Dossiers d’HEL dĂ©mĂ©nagent !
Les Dossiers d’HEL, the electronic supplement of the journal Histoire Épistémologie Langage, have moved.
You can find them at their new address :
http://shesl.org/index.php/les-dossiers-dhel/
Here are the issues already published :
Dossiers d’HEL n°1
Wilhelm Von Humboldt : Ă©diter et lire Humboldt
Dossiers d’HEL n°2
Karl Bühler : Science du langage et mémoire européenne
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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – April 2021
Marco Tamburelli & Mauro Tosco, ed. 2021. Contested Languages. The hidden multilingualism of Europe. Amsterdam : John Benjamins. Studies in World Language Problems, 8. 271 p. ISBN : 9789027208040
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This is the first volume entirely dedicated to contested languages. While generally listed in international language atlases, contested languages usually fall through the cracks of research: excluded from the literature on minority languages and treated as mere ensembles of geographically defined varieties by traditional dialectology. This volume investigates the nature of contested languages, the role language ideologies play in the perception of these languages, the contribution of academic discourse to the formation and perpetuation of language contestedness, and the damage contestedness causes to linguistic communities and ultimately to linguistic diversity. Various situations and degrees of language contestedness are presented and analysed, along with theoretical considerations, exploring potential roads to recognition and issues in language planning that arise from language contestedness. Addressing the “language vs dialect” question head on, the volume opens up new perspectives that are relevant to all students and researchers interested in the maintenance of linguistic diversity.
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Workshop: Language in the Global History of Knowledge, 29–30 April 2021
KU Leuven (online), 29–30 April 2021
https://relicta.org/lghk/index.html
This workshop discusses various ways in which language and the study of language figured in the global history of knowledge, from the 16th to the early 20th century. In the expanding network of mercantile, missionary, and colonial relations, language was both a vessel and a barrier for the transmission of knowledge. Moreover, languages became an object of knowledge and theory-formation in themselves, in ways that diverged from how their speakers knew their language and their world.
Our aim is to address the interrelations between these different kinds of knowledge. The emergence of the language sciences has to be understood both in relation to traditions of textual scholarship within different cultures, and to developments in other fields of science (broadly understood).
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History of Linguistics in East and South-East Asia
Below are two talks originally presented at the meeting of the Society for the History of Linguistics in the Pacific, December 2020, on the history of the grammatical description of Vietnamese and Chinese.
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
Podcast episode 14: The emergence of phonetics in the 19th century
In this interview, we talk to Michael Ashby about the emergence and development of phonetics in the 19th and early 20th century.
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2021 Annual Colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society
The 2021 annual colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas will be held online on the 22-23 April 2021, hosted by the University of Westminster, London.
The programme is available here.
Registration (as an audience member) : LAS-exec-asst@westminster.ac.uk by Sunday 11th April 2021.
Website : https://www.henrysweet.org/2021-annual-colloquium
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