Show simple item record

dc.contributor.editorAussant, Émilie
dc.contributor.editorFortis, Jean-Michel
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-24T04:31:12Z
dc.date.available2021-02-24T04:31:12Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46934
dc.description.abstractThis volume offers a selection of papers presented during the 14th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XIV, Paris, 2017). Part I brings together studies dealing with descriptive concepts. First examined is the notion of “accidens” in Latin grammar and its Greek counterparts. Other papers address questions with a strong echo in today’s linguistics: localism and its revival in recent semantics and syntax, the origin of the term “polysemy” and its adoption through Bréal, and the difficulties attending the description of prefabs, idioms and other “fixed expressions”. This first part also includes studies dealing with representations of linguistic phenomena, whether these concern the treatment of local varieties (so-called patois) in French research, or the import and epistemological function of spatial representations in descriptions of linguistic time. Or again, now taking the word “representation” literally, the visual display of grammatical relations, in the form of the first syntactic diagrams. Part II presents case studies which involve wider concerns, of a social nature: the “from below” approach to the history of Chinese Pidgin English underlines the social roles of speakers and the diversity of speech situations, while the scrutiny of Lhomond’s Latin and French textbooks demonstrates the interplay of pedagogical practice, cross-linguistic comparison and descriptive innovation. An overview of early descriptions of Central Australian languages reveals a whole spectrum of humanist to positivist and antihumanist stances during the colonial age. An overarching framework is also at play in the anthropological perspective championed by Meillet, whose socially and culturally oriented semantics is shown to live on in Benveniste. The volume ends with a paper on Trần Đức Thảo, whose work is an original synthesis between phenomenology and Marxist semiology, wielded against the “idealistic” doctrine of Saussure.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguisticsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DNB Biography: generalen_US
dc.subject.otherLanguage Arts & Disciplines*
dc.subject.otherLinguistics*
dc.subject.otherBiography & Autobiography*
dc.subject.otherTextbook*
dc.titleHistorical journey in a linguistic archipelago
dc.title.alternativeDescriptive concepts and case studies
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4269397
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy0bad921f-3055-43b9-a9f1-ea5b2d949173
oapen.relation.isbn9783961102921
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.imprintLanguage Science Press
oapen.identifierhttps://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/0b6a0f44-86a9-48d9-808a-6d9157ba391f
oapen.identifier.isbn9783961102921


Files in this item

Thumbnail

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record