Last papers in linguistic historiography
"This volume brings together, in 8 chapters, what has occupied the author during his many years as editor of Historiographia Linguistica. Namely, how the history of linguistics has developed into a major field of scholarly research, and that the discussion of questions of method and epistemology needs to be continued to avoid stereotypical practice. The author takes up a number of subjects that often had been regarded as settled, but which require a revisit. This is shown in several chapters, w…
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- Full title :Last papers in linguistic historiography / E. F. K. Koerner.
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"This volume brings together, in 8 chapters, what has occupied the author during his many years as editor of Historiographia Linguistica. Namely, how the history of linguistics has developed into a major field of scholarly research, and that the discussion of questions of method and epistemology needs to be continued to avoid stereotypical practice. The author takes up a number of subjects that often had been regarded as settled, but which require a revisit. This is shown in several chapters, whether it appears subjects like 'analogy' or the relationships between well-known linguists like Saussure, Hermann Paul, and others"--
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- Publication Date:2020
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Place of Publication:Amsterdam
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2020
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (x, 214 pages).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789027260918, 9027260915
- oclc:on1156414873
- LC Classification:P62
- Dewey Decimal:410.72/2
Table of Contents
Intro -- LAST PAPERS IN LINGUISTIC HISTORIOGRAPHY -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Part I. Positions and problems in the history of linguistics -- Chapter 1. The historiography of linguistics past, present, future -- 1. Prefatory remarks -- 2. Motivations for writing the history of linguistics -- 2.1 Summing-up histories of linguistics -- 2.2 Celebratory or propagandistic histories of linguistics -- 2.3 Detached histories of linguistics (Problemgeschichte) -- 2.4 Historiography of linguistics
3. The study of the history of linguistics: Early beginnings to the present -- 3.1 Early phases of history-writing in linguistics -- 3.2 Mid-20th-century efforts in history of linguistics -- 3.3 Late 20th-century work in the history of linguistics -- 4. Approaches to linguistic historiography -- 4.1 History of linguistics and intellectual history -- 4.2 History of linguistics and the philosophy of history -- 4.3 Linguistic historiography and history & philosophy of science -- 4.4 Linguistic historiography and sociology of science
4.5 Toward a synthesis of differing approaches to linguistic history-writing -- 5. The consolidation of linguis…
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