Foundations for a Science of Language
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 1984
XXIV, 175 pages
978-90-272-8013-8 (ISBN)
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This volume presents, for the first time in English, a representative view of Gustave Guillaume's thought. The texts, drawn mainly from his manuscript notes for lectures at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris, were selected as far as possible for their accessibility, as requiring no prior knowledge of his work. The result is a panorama of the far-ranging and often provocative thought of one of the twentieth century's most original linguists.
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Content
- Intro
- FOUNDATIONS FOR A SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- PREFACE
- Acknowledgements
- Table of contents
- INTRODUCTION GUSTAVE GUILLAUME 1883 - 1960
- NOTES FOR THE READER
- PRELIMINARY COMMENTS
- PART I. THE PROBLEMATICS OF A SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE
- CHAPTER 1. LINGUISTICS AND THE OTHER SCIENCES
- THE OBJECT OF LINGUISTICS
- LOGIC AND LINGUISTICS
- CHAPTER 2. THE METHOD OF ANALYSIS
- OBSERVATION OF THE ENTITIES OF TONGUE
- THE MENTALLY SEEABLE AND THE SAYABLE
- INTUITION
- WORKING HYPOTHESIS AND THEORY
- PROOF IN SCIENCE
- CHAPTER 3. GUSTAVE GUILLAUME AND LINGUISTIC TRADITION
- GENERAL GRAMMAR
- A MISUSE OF LOGIC
- AN ERROR OF HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS
- TONGUE AND ITS HISTORY
- A SHORTCOMING IN THE SAUSSUREAN ANALYSIS
- COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS AND PSYCHO-SYSTEMATICS
- CHAPTER 4. THEORY AND THE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE
- THEORY: UNDERSTANDING IN THE SUPERLATIVE
- TONGUE IS IN ITSELF A THEORY
- THE PRESUPPOSITION OF ORDER IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SCIENCE
- PART II. FROM PROBLEMATICS TO SYSTEMATICS IN THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE
- THE SIMPLICITY POSTULATE
- PSYCHO-SYSTEMATICS: DEFINITION AND METHOD
- PSYCHO-SYSTEMATICS AND PSYCHO-MECHANICS
- PARTICULARIZING AND GENERALIZING IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF LANGUAGE
- THE LAW OF NON-RECURRENCE
- SYSTEM AND DIACHRONY OF SYSTEMS
- THE CONTINUING CAUSATION OF LANGUAGE: PROPOSALS AND TRANSFORMS
- PROBLEMS OF REPRESENTATION AND STATES OF TONGUE
- LANGUAGE AND SILENT THOUGHT
- PART III. SIGN AND SIGNIFICATE
- THE PHYSICAL AND THE MENTAL: A FUNDAMENTAL DUALITY
- SIGNIFYING AND THE MENTAL/PHYSICAL RELATION
- INTERIORIZING AND EXTERIORIZING IN LANGUAGE
- THE SUITABILITY OF THE SIGN TO THE SIGNIFICATE
- EXPRESSIVE SUFFICIENCY: THE LAW OF PSYCHO-SEMIOLOGY
- RECIPROCAL ACCOMMODATION BETWEEN THE MENTAL AND THE PHYSICAL
- NEGATIVE MORPHOLOGY (ARTICLE ZERO)
- PART IV. THE ACT OF LANGUAGE
- THE NATURE OF THE ACT OF LANGUAGE
- THE ACT OF LANGUAGE: ITS OPERATIONAL CHRONOLOGY
- ESTABLISHED IN LANGUAGE OR IMPROVISED? EXPRESSION VS. EXPRESSIVENESS
- THE PLACE OF THE SENTENCE IN LANGUAGE
- UNITS OF POTENTIALITY AND UNITS OF ACTUALITY: THE WORD AND THE SENTENCE
- THE PRECEDENCE OF TONGUE: ITS ANTICIPATORY NATURE
- FROM WHAT IS THINKABLE TO WHAT IS THOUGHT: TONGUE AND DISCOURSE
- REPRESENTATION AND EXPRESSION: UNIVERSALITY OF THE RELATION
- TONGUE AS CONDITIONER
- PART V. LANGUAGE AND SYSTEM
- CHAPTER 1. THE SYSTEMIC NATURE OF LANGUAGE
- A LAW INHERENT IN ANY SYSTEM
- A DIFFICULTY REGARDING THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE SYSTEMS
- TONGUE AS A SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS
- THE ESTABLISHED AND NON-ESTABLISHED ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE
- SYSTEM AND NON-SYSTEM IN TONGUE
- THE HISTORICAL FILIATION AND RENEWAL OF SYSTEMS
- CHAPTER 2. THE SYSTEMEC NATURE OF THE WORD
- DISCOVERING THE SYSTEM: AN APPROPRIATE ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUE
- THE GENESIS OF THE WORD: MATTER AND FORM
- OPERATIONS OF WORD CONSTRUCTION: DISCRIMINATION AND CATEGORIZATION
- THE MECHANISM OF WORD CONSTRUCTION IN THE INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES
- MORPHOLOGY AND THE GENESIS OF THE WORD
- A STRUCTURAL DEVICE: THE RADICAL BINARY TENSOR
- THE ROLE OF INCIDENCE IN DETERMINING WORD CATEGORIES
- INTERNAL INCIDENCE AND EXTERNAL INCIDENCE
- SYSTEM OF THE WORD AND SYSTEM OF THE ARTICLE
- POTENTIALITY AND REALITY IN LANGUAGE
- PART VI. THOUGHT AND LANGUAGE
- LANGUAGE AND OPERATIONALISM
- THE OPERATIONAL SUBSTRATUM OF EVERY LANGUAGE SYSTEM
- LANGUAGE AND WHAT IS SAYABLE: FROM THE UNSAYABLE TO THE SAYABLE
- STRUCTURAL STATES OF LANGUAGE AND THE HISTORY OF HUMAN UNDERSTANDING
- THE HUMANIZING FUNCTION OF LANGUAGE: LINGUISTICS AND ANTHROPOLOGY
- LANGUAGE AS A REDUCER OF MENTAL TURBULENCE
- THE SPECIFICITY OF HUMAN LUCIDITY
- THE RECIPROCAL CAUSATION OF THOUGHT AND LANGUAGE
- THE COMMON MIND AND THE SCHOLARLY MIND
- EPILOGUE
- LANGUAGE AND SCIENTIFIC CURIOSITY
- LANGUAGE, MATHEMATICS AND LINGUISTICS
- LANGUAGE, MAN AND THE UNIVERSE
- LANGUAGE AND COMMON THOUGHT
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY PRINCIPAL PUBLICATIONS OF GUSTAVE GUILLAUME
- INDEX
