Varro's Theory of Language - Daniel J. Taylor: Declinatio: A Study of the Linguistic Theory of Marcus Terentius Varro. (Studies in the History of Linguistics, Volume 2.) Pp. xv + 131. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1975. Paper, Hfl. 24.

1977 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-185
Author(s):  
Alan H. Sommerstein
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Theory ◽  
History Of Linguistics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Theory Of Language

Lexicography and the Evolution of Consciousness

2003 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 407-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph L. Subbiondo
Keyword(s):  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Evolution Of Consciousness ◽  
Language History ◽  
History Of Linguistics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Poetic Diction ◽  
Theory Of Language

Summary Owen Barfield (1898–1997), a cultural critic and historian, has been appreciated by literary scholars and artists including C. S. Lewis, T. S. Eliot, and W. H. Auden, but he has been relatively unnoticed by linguists despite the fact that he advanced a thoughtfully reasoned and documented theory of language history throughout his many writings. In his theory of etymological semantics, Barfield asserted that the etymology of words reveals an evolution of human consciousness. Barfield’s relationship between language and consciousness is significant to the history of linguistics because he not only described what changed in a language’s history, but he also explained why it changed. In his seminal History in English Words (1926), a book written at the beginning of his nearly 70-year career as a scholar and writer, Barfield initially presented his theory with examples from the history of English beginning with its origins in Indo-European. This theory became a central and unifying theme in all of his work – a theory which he refined and expanded in many later writings, especially in Poetic Diction (1928), Speaker’s Meaning (1967), and History, Guilt, and Habit (1979).

scholarly journals Indian Contribution to Language Sciences in Non-Western Tradition: With Reference to Arabic

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Rahmadsyah Rangkuti ◽  
S. Imtiaz Hasnain
Keyword(s):  
Near East ◽  
Linguistic Theory ◽  
Ancient Near East ◽  
Western Tradition ◽  
The West ◽  
European Tradition ◽  
History Of Linguistics ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Indian Contribution

Language study relates itself to both ontology and epistemology. Both ontological and epistemological investigations have been the subject of debate and discussion in different civilizations producing a number of grammatical traditions other than the West. Arab, China, India and the ancient Near East can also boast of language traditions of greater antiquity. In terms of richness of insight and comprehensiveness of scope, both India and the Arab compete on equal terms with the West, where each grew independently of the others and for the most part developed separately, drawing on the resources of the culture within which it grew. Hence, there is strong need to have a study of comparative grammatical theory to which Indian, Arabs and Chinese also belong, centring on the questions of: What has been the importance of these theories explanatory categories appear in historically unrelated linguistic theory, and if they do, why? This perspective would bring new dimension to the study of linguistic theory and would not remain at the level of redressing the overwhelming emphasis on the European tradition in the study of history of linguistics.

scholarly journals In the Three-Dimensional Space of Linguistic Theory and Literary Experiment

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-93
Author(s):  
V. V. Feshchenko
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Language Analysis ◽  
History Of Linguistics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Theory Of Language ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Three Dimensional Space

Based on Yu. S. Stepanov’s conception of the three paradigms in the history of linguistics, philosophy and art (semantic, syntactic and pragmatic), this study highlights the three phases of the linguo-aesthetic turn in the theory of language and in the artistic language experiment of the 20 th century: formal-semantic, functional-syntactic and actional-pragmatic. Analyzed are the creative linguistic techniques used in experimental literary discourse throughout the 20 th century, predominantly in Russian and Anglo-American literature, and the linguistic procedures corresponding to these techniques, discovered in twentieth century linguistics as a path to new theories of language. The research material testifies to complex and productive interactions between experimental-artistic and scientific-linguistic discourses. The creative linguistic techniques of the literary experiment are consistent with the techniques of language analysis in the linguistic theories of the twentieth century.

Mikołaj Kruszewski and 20th-century linguistics

1998 ◽  
Vol 25 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 61-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fedor Mixajlovič Berezin
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Linguistic Theory ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
History Of Linguistics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Roman Jakobson ◽  
Language Universals ◽  
General Linguistics ◽  
General Linguistic

Summary The article deals with important issues in general linguistic theory discussed by Mikołaj Habdank Kruszewski alias Nikolaj Vjačeslavovič Kruševskij (1851–1887), in the author’s view an unjustly forgotten linguist of genius of the late 19th century, who could be seen as standing at the roots of the 20th-century structuralism, long before the appearance of F. de Saussure’s lectures on general linguistics. In his major book O čerk nauki o jazyke (An outline of the science of language) of 1883, Kruszewski conceived of language as a system of signs, laying stress on the semiotic function of language. His understanding of sound alternation is in many ways close to modern principles of phonology and morphonology. His hypothesis of the universal character of the sound laws too anticipated the discovery of language universals. As a result, the author agrees with Radwańska-Williams’ (1993) characterization of Kruszewski’s theory as ‘a lost paradigm’ in the history of linguistics. Well-known linguists of the 20th century such as Roman Jakobson (1896–1982), Jerzy Kuryłowicz (1895–1978) , and others rightly argued that Kruszewski was one of the founders of modern linguistic theory.

“Full access” and the history of linguistics

1996 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 743-744
Author(s):  
Margaret Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Linguistic Theory ◽  
Target Article ◽  
History Of Linguistics ◽  
History Of

AbstractThis commentary addresses two pervasive misconceptions which emerge in Epstein et al.'s target article: (1) that study of second language acquisition (SLA) began in the mid-twentieth century; (2) that SLA has only recently become able to contribute to linguistic theory. There is abundant historical counterevidence; I argue that (1) and (2) obscure the legitimacy of Epstein et al.'s “full access” hypothesis.

“Corsican sociolinguistics”: Key words and concepts of a cross-linguistic theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (261) ◽  
pp. 9-26
Author(s):  
Philippe Blanchet
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Linguistic Theory ◽  
Research Center ◽  
History Of

AbstractThis article presents the set of the central concepts of so-called “Corsican sociolinguistics” mainly elaborated by Marcellesi. It also shows the history of their collective elaboration within Marcellesi’s research center and on the Corsican ground. It aims at showing that they constitute a whole coherent sociolinguistic theory which is useful for many sociolinguistic situations and not only for Corsican.

Economic thought in the 17th and 18th centuries: a linguistic approach

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 260-270
Author(s):  
Iara Vigo de Lima
Keyword(s):  
Economic Thought ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Front Position ◽  
History Of ◽  
Epistemological Model ◽  
Theory Of Language ◽  
Theory Of Value ◽  
Linguistic Approach ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse Michel Foucault’s new epistemological model regarding an analogy between the theory of language and economic thought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Design/methodology/approach – Through the scrutiny of language, Foucault intended to demonstrate that some analogies, among different branches of knowledge (interdiscursive practice), allow us to apprehend the underlying configuration of thought regarding ontological and epistemological conditions that have historically determined knowledge. He draws a parallel between four theoretical segments borrowed from general grammar (Attribution, Articulation, Designation and Derivation) and economic thought on wealth. Findings – One of the most remarkable propositions of this approach is that the theory of language and economic thought were epistemologically isomorphic in that context. What the theory of language stated in relation to “attribution” and “articulation” corresponded to the “theory of value” in economic thought. What grammar investigated regarding “designation” and “derivation” was analogous to the “theory of money and trade” in economic thought. The relationships that were – directly and diagonally – identified between and among them led to the conclusion that there was ‘a circular and surface causality’ in economic thought insofar as “circulation” preceded “production”. It was “superficial” because it could not find an explanation for the cause of “wealth”, which was only possible when “production” was placed in the front position of theories. Practical implications – Such an epistemological point of view can inspire other studies in the history of economic thought. Originality/value – This paper offers a perspective on how to think about the history of ontological and epistemological conditions of economic thought.

The Medieval Life of Language

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Amsler
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social History ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Margery Kempe ◽  
Pragmatic Theory ◽  
Sign Theory ◽  
Philosophy And Literature ◽  
Social Discourses ◽  
History Of Linguistics ◽  
History Of

The Medieval Life of Language: Grammar and Pragmatics from Bacon to Kempe explores the complex history of medieval pragmatic theory and ideas and metapragmatic awareness across social discourses. Pragmatic thinking about language and communication are revealed in grammar, semiotics, philosophy, and literature. Part historical reconstruction, part social history, part language theory, Amsler supplements the usual materials for the history of medieval linguistics and discusses the pragmatic implications of grammatical treatises on the interjection, Bacon's sign theory, logic texts, Chaucer's poetry, inquisitors' accounts of heretic speech, and life writing by William Thorpe and Margery Kempe. Medieval and contemporary pragmatic theory are contrasted in terms of their philosophical and linguistic orientations. Aspects of medieval pragmatic theory and practice, especially polysemy, equivocation, affective speech, and recontextualization, show how pragmatic discourse informed social controversies and attitudes toward sincere, vague, and heretical speech. Relying on Bakhtinian dialogism, critical discourse analysis, and conversation analysis, Amsler situates a key period in the history of linguistics within broader social and discursive fields of practice.

Universal History of Linguistics

1993 ◽  
Vol 113 (2) ◽  
pp. 329
Author(s):  
Roy Andrew Miller ◽  
Esa Itkonen
Keyword(s):  
Universal History ◽  
History Of Linguistics ◽  
History Of
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