Bart Karstens University of Amsterdam In recent historiography an upsurge in interest in the interaction between academic disciplines can be seen. This is in no small part due to the rise of the history of humanities as a specialized field…
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The Prague Linguistic Circle and the Analogy between Musicology and Linguistics
Tagged with: history of humanities, musicology, Prague Linguistic Circle, Roman Jakobson
Posted in 20th century, Article, Europe, History, Linguistics, Phonology
Posted in 20th century, Article, Europe, History, Linguistics, Phonology
Le Formalisme russe dans l’histoire de la linguistique
Patrick Flack sdvig press Le Formalisme russe, Ă bien des Ă©gards, constitue un phĂ©nomène paradoxal. Il a, c’est bien connu, fourni les fondements d’une approche systĂ©matique de la littĂ©rature (ou du « langage poĂ©tique « ) et contribuĂ© Ă 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
Hendrik Pos and the epistemological foundations of structuralism
Patrick Flack Charles University, Prague The name of Dutch linguist and philosopher Hendrik Josephus Pos (1898-1955) is not one that rings many bells today, except perhaps in the Netherlands and the (growing) circles of Merleau-Ponty specialists. But to the keen…
From Inductivism to Structuralism: the ‘method of residues’ goes to the field
Michael Silverstein University of Chicago It should be clear to anyone who surveys the historical record that the “discovery” of the phoneme – that is, the codification of phonological theory and method – was key in linguists’ consciousness of a…
Tagged with: Bauduoin de Courtenay, Bloomfield, Daniel Jones, field linguistics, history of linguistics, Jerzy KuryĆšowicz, Neogrammarians, phoneme, phonology, Roman Jakobson, Sapir, Saussure, structuralism, Trubetskoy
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, America, Article, Europe, History, Linguistics, Structuralism
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, America, Article, Europe, History, Linguistics, Structuralism
History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences 