
Professing Linguistic Historiography
E.F.K. Koerner(Author)
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Published on 24. November 1995
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Hardback
274 pages
978-90-272-4566-3 (ISBN)
Description
The volume brings together recent papers by the author, selected to form a broad picture of his teachings, all of them revised and updated, either addressing particular topics in the Histor(iograph)y of Linguistics (Part I) or offering historical accounts of linguistic subfields (Part II), in altogether 10 chapters: 1, Persistent Issues in Linguistic Historiography; 2, Metalanguage in Linguistic Historiography; 3, The Natural Science Impact on Theory Formation in 19th and 20th Century Linguistics; 4, Saussure and the Question of the Sources of his Linguistic Theory; 5, Chomsky's Readings of the Cours de linguistique generale; 6, Toward a History of Modern Sociolinguistics; 7, Toward a History of Americanist Linguistics; 8, Toward a History of Linguistic Typology; 9, History and Historiography of Phonetics: A state-of-the-art account, and 10, The 'Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis': An historico-bibliographical essay. Index of authors; index of subjects & terms.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
490 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-4566-3 (9789027245663)
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1. Prefatory Remarks; 2. Part I. Topics in the Histor(iograph)y of Linguistics; 3. 1. Persistent Issues in Linguistic Historiography; 4. 2. 'Metalanguage' in Linguistic Historiography; 5. 3. The Natural Science Impact on Theory Formation in 19th and 20th Century Linguistics; 6. 4. Saussure and the Question of the Sources of His Linguistic Theory; 7. 5. Chomsky's Readings of the Cours de linguistique generale; 8. Part II. Historical Accounts of Linguistic Subfields; 9. 6. Toward a History of Modern Sociolinguistics; 10. 7. Toward a History of Americanist Linguistics; 11. 8. Toward a History of Linguistic Typology; 12. 9. History and Historiography of Phonetics: A state-of-the-art account; 13. 10. The 'Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis': An historico-bibliographical essay; 14. Appendix: List of papers, 1970-1995; 15. Index of Authors; 16. Index of Subjects