John Hart and the Beginning of English Linguistics in Tudor England
Andrew Ji Ma Southern University of Science and Technology, China 1. Introduction John Hart (c. 1501–1574) is a remarkable figure in the history of British linguistic thought. Along with Thomas Smith...
View ArticleSpeech sounds in the field: Dynamical approaches to phonology after Maxwell...
Alexander Teixeira Kalkhoff Universität Freiburg 1 The notion of field in physics The mutual interaction, i.e. attraction and repulsion, of bodies across space without direct mechanical contact, such...
View ArticleWhy women botanists outnumbered women linguists in nineteenth century Australia
Jane Simpson Australian National University 1. Introduction In colonial Australia (1788–1901), only about a dozen women are recorded as documenting Australian languages, compared with nearly 300 women...
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The formalisation of grammatical meanings in Copenhagen structural...
Lorenzo Cigana University of Copenhagen (NorS) The aim of this outline contribution, which will receive a proper treatment elsewhere, is to describe a single piece within the broader mosaic of European...
View ArticleThe journal WORD and the structural heritage of usage-based linguistics:...
Enrico Torre Università degli Studi di Genova The first issue of WORD was launched in 1945, announced on its front cover as “the journal of the Linguistic Circle of New York, devoted to the study of...
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Language in and out of society: Converging critiques of the Labovian paradigm
Johannes Woschitz University of Edinburgh The following text is based on and is, where appropriate, an elaboration of Woschitz (2019), a paper I have recently published and which is the centrepiece of...
View ArticlePodcast episode 1: Pre-history of comparative-historical linguistics
The first series of the History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences Podcast looks at the history of modern linguistics. We begin in this episode by examining the pre-history of...
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Has the LSA Been a Generativist-Dominated Organisation?
Frederick J. Newmeyer University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, and University of Washington There are two stories about how the field of linguistics (at least in the United States)...
View ArticlePodcast episode 2: Comparative-historical linguistics – Bopp and Grimm
In this episode, we look at the emergence of comparative-historical grammar, focusing on the work of Franz Bopp and Jacob Grimm....
View ArticleDer Siegener Diskursmonitor – ein Onlineportal zur strategischen Kommunikation
Friedemann Vogel, Fabian Deus & Clemens Knobloch Universität Siegen 1. Gegenstand und Ziel des Diskursmonitors Der “Diskursmonitor” (www.diskursmonitor.de) ist ein disziplinenübergreifendes,...
View ArticleBeing critical: Elements of Critical Theory in the work of critical discourse...
Diego Romeo University of Edinburgh The constellation of linguistic research broadly labelled as Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) can hardly be understood as the homogeneous product of a monolithic...
View ArticleColorless green ideas and the others
Martin Konvička (Freie Universität Berlin)* 1 Colorless green ideas In the opening pages of his Syntactic Structures (1957: 15)[1], Noam Chomsky demonstrates the independence of grammar (or syntax)...
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Intentionality in phenomenology and speech act theory
Els Elffers 1. Introduction Phenomenology covers a large area, and the same is true of speech act theory. Here I will focus on one point of contact between them, namely intentionality. Intentionality...
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The 1940 BFBS Conference on African Languages
Floris SolleveldUniversity of Bristol On 28 May 1940, a group of 33 people met at the British and Foreign Bible Society headquarters (‘Bible House’) in London for a conference on African languages....
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Language and the Missionary World Map
Floris SolleveldUniversity of Bristol Two unpublished histories of the British and Foreign Bible Society were written in the 1820s to 1830s (BFBS Archives, Cambridge University Library,...
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Historical Chinese phonology as a meeting ground for the Indian, the Chinese,...
Lei Zhu Shanghai International Studies University The speech sound, being the most important medium between our physical body and linguistic mind, is one of human beings’ oldest objects of study. In...
View ArticleFrom 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...
View ArticleNo beetle? Wittgenstein’s ‘grammatical illusions’ and Dalabon emotion metaphors
Maïa Ponsonnet Australian National University and Dynamique du Langage (CNRS/Université Lyon 2) Apart from a few fruitful but pointed encounters, linguistics and philosophy of language often talk past...
View ArticleThe social cognition of linguists
Andrea C. Schalley Griffith University It is social cognition which enables us to construct functioning societies sharing knowledge, values and goals, and to undertake collaborative action. It is also...
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Emile Benveniste et les langues amérindiennes.
Chloé Laplantine Laboratoire d’Histoire des Théories Linguistiques CNRS-Université Paris Diderot Frances Densmore et le chef Blackfoot, Mountain Chief, pendant une session d’enregistrement au Bureau of...
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