Author: Ulrich Ricken
Publisher: Presses Univ. Septentrion
ISBN: 9782859390891
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : fr
Pages : 248
Book Description
Le langage et la pensée, fonctionnent-ils à partir d'une raison innée ou à partir de l'expérience et des idées qui en résultent? Telle est la problématique, aux implications importantes pour l'interprétation de la nature du langage, de la pensée et de l'homme même, qui fut pour les grammairiens-philosophes l'actualité des fondements de l'ordre des mots. Car il fallait décider si l'ordre des mots était régi par les principes d'une pensée à priori ou de l'expérience, et si la grammaire relevait de la pensée abstraite ou des sensations qu'éprouvent les hommes dans des situations concrètes. C'étaient là des questions qui, par delà le domaine grammatical, impliquaient des critères relatifs à l'esthétique et à la clarté du langage, provoquant des jugements qui traduisent le rôle de l'esprit national pour l'appréciation des langues. Les réponses, dans ce débat, sont conditionnées par des positions philosophiques et même politiques pendant la Révolution et la Restauration.La présente étude suit le cheminement historique du concept d'un ordre naturel des pensées et des mots. Les controverses qu'a suscitées, au 18e siècle, la théorie rationaliste de l'ordre des mots, voient les prises de position de nombreux grammairiens et des principaux représentants des Lumières ; elles montrent, dans la réplique sensualiste même, le double postérité du cartésianisme en théorie linguistique.L'explication condillacienne de la pensée comme sensation transformée établit les bases d'une grammaire et d'une théorie du style sensualistes, dépassant les contradictions dans lesquelles le dualisme rationaliste avait trouvé son expression sur le plan grammatical: l'opposition irréductible du rationnel et de l'émotionnel, la contradiction entre les normes linguistiques déduites de prémisses logiques et la réalité linguistique. En même temps, cette théorie ouvre la perspective de l'évolution historique de l'ordre des mots, éliminant son interprétation en fonction d'un type fondamental de valeur universelle. Mais la théorie de l'ordre naturel aura la vie dure et fournira longtemps encore des arguments afin de prouver la construction dite logique et donc la clarté exceptionnelle du français.
Grammaire et philosophie au siècle des Lumières
Author: Ulrich Ricken
Publisher: Presses Univ. Septentrion
ISBN: 9782859390891
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : fr
Pages : 248
Book Description
Le langage et la pensée, fonctionnent-ils à partir d'une raison innée ou à partir de l'expérience et des idées qui en résultent? Telle est la problématique, aux implications importantes pour l'interprétation de la nature du langage, de la pensée et de l'homme même, qui fut pour les grammairiens-philosophes l'actualité des fondements de l'ordre des mots. Car il fallait décider si l'ordre des mots était régi par les principes d'une pensée à priori ou de l'expérience, et si la grammaire relevait de la pensée abstraite ou des sensations qu'éprouvent les hommes dans des situations concrètes. C'étaient là des questions qui, par delà le domaine grammatical, impliquaient des critères relatifs à l'esthétique et à la clarté du langage, provoquant des jugements qui traduisent le rôle de l'esprit national pour l'appréciation des langues. Les réponses, dans ce débat, sont conditionnées par des positions philosophiques et même politiques pendant la Révolution et la Restauration.La présente étude suit le cheminement historique du concept d'un ordre naturel des pensées et des mots. Les controverses qu'a suscitées, au 18e siècle, la théorie rationaliste de l'ordre des mots, voient les prises de position de nombreux grammairiens et des principaux représentants des Lumières ; elles montrent, dans la réplique sensualiste même, le double postérité du cartésianisme en théorie linguistique.L'explication condillacienne de la pensée comme sensation transformée établit les bases d'une grammaire et d'une théorie du style sensualistes, dépassant les contradictions dans lesquelles le dualisme rationaliste avait trouvé son expression sur le plan grammatical: l'opposition irréductible du rationnel et de l'émotionnel, la contradiction entre les normes linguistiques déduites de prémisses logiques et la réalité linguistique. En même temps, cette théorie ouvre la perspective de l'évolution historique de l'ordre des mots, éliminant son interprétation en fonction d'un type fondamental de valeur universelle. Mais la théorie de l'ordre naturel aura la vie dure et fournira longtemps encore des arguments afin de prouver la construction dite logique et donc la clarté exceptionnelle du français.
Publisher: Presses Univ. Septentrion
ISBN: 9782859390891
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : fr
Pages : 248
Book Description
Le langage et la pensée, fonctionnent-ils à partir d'une raison innée ou à partir de l'expérience et des idées qui en résultent? Telle est la problématique, aux implications importantes pour l'interprétation de la nature du langage, de la pensée et de l'homme même, qui fut pour les grammairiens-philosophes l'actualité des fondements de l'ordre des mots. Car il fallait décider si l'ordre des mots était régi par les principes d'une pensée à priori ou de l'expérience, et si la grammaire relevait de la pensée abstraite ou des sensations qu'éprouvent les hommes dans des situations concrètes. C'étaient là des questions qui, par delà le domaine grammatical, impliquaient des critères relatifs à l'esthétique et à la clarté du langage, provoquant des jugements qui traduisent le rôle de l'esprit national pour l'appréciation des langues. Les réponses, dans ce débat, sont conditionnées par des positions philosophiques et même politiques pendant la Révolution et la Restauration.La présente étude suit le cheminement historique du concept d'un ordre naturel des pensées et des mots. Les controverses qu'a suscitées, au 18e siècle, la théorie rationaliste de l'ordre des mots, voient les prises de position de nombreux grammairiens et des principaux représentants des Lumières ; elles montrent, dans la réplique sensualiste même, le double postérité du cartésianisme en théorie linguistique.L'explication condillacienne de la pensée comme sensation transformée établit les bases d'une grammaire et d'une théorie du style sensualistes, dépassant les contradictions dans lesquelles le dualisme rationaliste avait trouvé son expression sur le plan grammatical: l'opposition irréductible du rationnel et de l'émotionnel, la contradiction entre les normes linguistiques déduites de prémisses logiques et la réalité linguistique. En même temps, cette théorie ouvre la perspective de l'évolution historique de l'ordre des mots, éliminant son interprétation en fonction d'un type fondamental de valeur universelle. Mais la théorie de l'ordre naturel aura la vie dure et fournira longtemps encore des arguments afin de prouver la construction dite logique et donc la clarté exceptionnelle du français.
Linguistics, Anthropology and Philosophy in the French Enlightenment
Author: Ulrich Ricken
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134901704
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Linguistics, Anthropology and Philosophy in the French Enlightenment treats the development of linguistic thought from Descartes to Degerando as both a part of and a determining factor in the emergence of modern consciousness. Through his careful analyses of works by the most influential thinkers of the time, Ulrich Ricken demonstrates that the central significance of language in the philosophy of the enlightenment, reflected and acted upon contemporary understandings of humanity as a whole. The author discusses contemporary developments in England, Germany and Italy and covers an unusually broad range of writers and ideas including Leibniz, Wolff, Herder and Humboldt. This study places history of language philosophy within the broader context of the history of ideas, aesthetics and historical anthropology and will be of interest to scholars working in these disciplines.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134901704
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Linguistics, Anthropology and Philosophy in the French Enlightenment treats the development of linguistic thought from Descartes to Degerando as both a part of and a determining factor in the emergence of modern consciousness. Through his careful analyses of works by the most influential thinkers of the time, Ulrich Ricken demonstrates that the central significance of language in the philosophy of the enlightenment, reflected and acted upon contemporary understandings of humanity as a whole. The author discusses contemporary developments in England, Germany and Italy and covers an unusually broad range of writers and ideas including Leibniz, Wolff, Herder and Humboldt. This study places history of language philosophy within the broader context of the history of ideas, aesthetics and historical anthropology and will be of interest to scholars working in these disciplines.
A Revolution in Language
Author: Sophia A. Rosenfeld
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804749312
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
What is the relationship between the ideas of the Enlightenment and the culture and ideology of the French Revolution? This book takes up that classic question by concentrating on changing conceptions of language and, especially, signs during the second half of the eighteenth century. The author traces, first, the emergence of a new interest in the possibility of gestural communication within the philosophy, theater, and pedagogy of the last decades of the Old Regime. She then explores the varied uses and significance of a variety of semiotic experiments, including the development of a sign language for the deaf, within the language politics of the Revolution. A Revolution in Language shows not only that many key revolutionary thinkers were unusually preoccupied by questions of language, but also that prevailing assumptions about words and other signs profoundly shaped revolutionaries' efforts to imagine and to institute an ideal polity between 1789 and the start of the new century. This book reveals the links between Enlightenment epistemology and the development of modern French political culture.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804749312
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
What is the relationship between the ideas of the Enlightenment and the culture and ideology of the French Revolution? This book takes up that classic question by concentrating on changing conceptions of language and, especially, signs during the second half of the eighteenth century. The author traces, first, the emergence of a new interest in the possibility of gestural communication within the philosophy, theater, and pedagogy of the last decades of the Old Regime. She then explores the varied uses and significance of a variety of semiotic experiments, including the development of a sign language for the deaf, within the language politics of the Revolution. A Revolution in Language shows not only that many key revolutionary thinkers were unusually preoccupied by questions of language, but also that prevailing assumptions about words and other signs profoundly shaped revolutionaries' efforts to imagine and to institute an ideal polity between 1789 and the start of the new century. This book reveals the links between Enlightenment epistemology and the development of modern French political culture.
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
Author: Michel Delon
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135960054
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 3153
Book Description
This acclaimed translation of Michel Delon's Dictionnaire Europen des Lumires contains more than 350 signed entries covering the art, economics, science, history, philosophy, and religion of the Enlightenment. Delon's team of more than 200 experts from around the world offers a unique perspective on the period, providing offering not only factual information but also critical opinions that give the reader a deeper level of understanding. An international team of translators, editors, and advisers, under the auspices of the French Ministry of Culture, has brought this collection of scholarship to the English-speaking world for the first time.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135960054
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 3153
Book Description
This acclaimed translation of Michel Delon's Dictionnaire Europen des Lumires contains more than 350 signed entries covering the art, economics, science, history, philosophy, and religion of the Enlightenment. Delon's team of more than 200 experts from around the world offers a unique perspective on the period, providing offering not only factual information but also critical opinions that give the reader a deeper level of understanding. An international team of translators, editors, and advisers, under the auspices of the French Ministry of Culture, has brought this collection of scholarship to the English-speaking world for the first time.
A History of Language Philosophies
Author: Lia Formigari
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9781588115614
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Theory and history combine in this book to form a coherent narrative of the debates on language and languages in the Western world, from ancient classic philosophy to the present, with a final glance at on-going discussions on language as a cognitive tool, on its bodily roots and philogenetic role.An introductory chapter reviews the epistemological areas that converge into, or contribute to, language philosophy, and discusses their methods, relations, and goals. In this context, the status of language philosophy is discussed in its relation to the sciences and the arts of language. Each chapter is followed by a list of suggested readings that refer the reader to the final bibliography."About the author" Lia Formigari, Professor Emeritus at University of Rome, La Sapienza. Her publications include: "Language and Experience in XVIIth-century British Philosophy." Amsterdam & Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, 1988; "Signs, Science and Politics. Philosophies of Language in Europe 1700 1830." Amsterdam & Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, 1993; "La semiotique empiriste face au kantisme." Liege: Mardaga, 1994.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9781588115614
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Theory and history combine in this book to form a coherent narrative of the debates on language and languages in the Western world, from ancient classic philosophy to the present, with a final glance at on-going discussions on language as a cognitive tool, on its bodily roots and philogenetic role.An introductory chapter reviews the epistemological areas that converge into, or contribute to, language philosophy, and discusses their methods, relations, and goals. In this context, the status of language philosophy is discussed in its relation to the sciences and the arts of language. Each chapter is followed by a list of suggested readings that refer the reader to the final bibliography."About the author" Lia Formigari, Professor Emeritus at University of Rome, La Sapienza. Her publications include: "Language and Experience in XVIIth-century British Philosophy." Amsterdam & Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, 1988; "Signs, Science and Politics. Philosophies of Language in Europe 1700 1830." Amsterdam & Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, 1993; "La semiotique empiriste face au kantisme." Liege: Mardaga, 1994.
History of Linguistics 2011
Author: Vadim Kasevich
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027269777
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This volume brings together a selection of papers presented at the 12th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XII) held in St. Petersburg, Russia, 28 August – 2 September 2011. It begins with contributions on 17th-century rationalist ideas and practical grammar writing, and then covers a great variety of 18th and 19th century topics from Western grammars of Chinese to Saussure’s remarks on semiology of the years 1881–1891. The most noteworthy feature, however, is an entire section devoted to linguistics in Russia from the early Soviet period until the 1950s, including attempts to establish a Marxist view of language as well as phases to critically adapt Western ideas and at times efforts to participate successfully in international linguistic scholarship, both in phonetics and semantics.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027269777
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This volume brings together a selection of papers presented at the 12th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XII) held in St. Petersburg, Russia, 28 August – 2 September 2011. It begins with contributions on 17th-century rationalist ideas and practical grammar writing, and then covers a great variety of 18th and 19th century topics from Western grammars of Chinese to Saussure’s remarks on semiology of the years 1881–1891. The most noteworthy feature, however, is an entire section devoted to linguistics in Russia from the early Soviet period until the 1950s, including attempts to establish a Marxist view of language as well as phases to critically adapt Western ideas and at times efforts to participate successfully in international linguistic scholarship, both in phonetics and semantics.
The Economic Turn
Author: Steven Kaplan
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1783088575
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 783
Book Description
The mid-eighteenth century witnessed what might be dubbed an economic turn that resolutely changed the trajectory of world history. The discipline of economics itself emerged amidst this turn, and it is frequently traced back to the work of François Quesnay and his school of Physiocracy. Though lionized by the subsequent historiography of economics, the theoretical postulates and policy consequences of Physiocracy were disastrous at the time, resulting in a veritable subsistence trauma in France. This galvanized relentless and diverse critiques of the doctrine not only in France but also throughout the European world that have, hitherto, been largely neglected by scholars. Though Physiocracy was an integral part of the economic turn, it was rapidly overcome, both theoretically and practically, with durable and important consequences for the history of political economy. The Economic Turn brings together some of the leading historians of that moment to fundamentally recast our understanding of the origins and diverse natures of political economy in the Enlightenment.
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1783088575
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 783
Book Description
The mid-eighteenth century witnessed what might be dubbed an economic turn that resolutely changed the trajectory of world history. The discipline of economics itself emerged amidst this turn, and it is frequently traced back to the work of François Quesnay and his school of Physiocracy. Though lionized by the subsequent historiography of economics, the theoretical postulates and policy consequences of Physiocracy were disastrous at the time, resulting in a veritable subsistence trauma in France. This galvanized relentless and diverse critiques of the doctrine not only in France but also throughout the European world that have, hitherto, been largely neglected by scholars. Though Physiocracy was an integral part of the economic turn, it was rapidly overcome, both theoretically and practically, with durable and important consequences for the history of political economy. The Economic Turn brings together some of the leading historians of that moment to fundamentally recast our understanding of the origins and diverse natures of political economy in the Enlightenment.
Les Idéologues
Author: Winfried Busse
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027279403
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Le présent volume réunit les contributions d’un colloque sur la pensée sémiotique et linguistique des Idéologues qui s’est tenu à Berlin du 3 au 5 octobre 1983. Ce recueil d’articles fait suite à un fascicule de la revue Histoire Epistémologie Langage qui était consacré au même sujet et dont il complète et amplifie les perspectives en ce qui concerne la portée européenne de la discussion. Le volume manifeste l’intérêt que beaucoup d’entre nous portent, surtout dans les sciences du langage, à ces philosophes longtemps négligés par l’histoire de la pensée.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027279403
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Le présent volume réunit les contributions d’un colloque sur la pensée sémiotique et linguistique des Idéologues qui s’est tenu à Berlin du 3 au 5 octobre 1983. Ce recueil d’articles fait suite à un fascicule de la revue Histoire Epistémologie Langage qui était consacré au même sujet et dont il complète et amplifie les perspectives en ce qui concerne la portée européenne de la discussion. Le volume manifeste l’intérêt que beaucoup d’entre nous portent, surtout dans les sciences du langage, à ces philosophes longtemps négligés par l’histoire de la pensée.
Chapters of Dependency Grammar
Author: András Imrényi
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027261709
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Was Tesnière the founding father of dependency grammar or merely a culmination point in its long history? Leaving no doubt that the latter position is correct, Chapters of Dependency Grammar tells the story of how dependency-oriented grammatical description developed from Antiquity up to the early 20th century. From Priscian’s Rome to Dmitrievsky’s Russia, from the French Encyclopaedia to Stephen W. Clark’s school grammars in 19th century America, it is shown how the concept of dependencies (asymmetric word-to-word relations) surfaced again and again, assuming a central place in syntax. A particularly intriguing aspect of the storyline is that even without any direct contact or influence, authors were making key breakthroughs in similar directions. In the works of Sámuel Brassai, a Transylvanian polymath, and Franz Kern, a German grammarian, the first dependency trees appear in 1873 and 1883, respectively, predating Tesnière’s stemmas by several decades.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027261709
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Was Tesnière the founding father of dependency grammar or merely a culmination point in its long history? Leaving no doubt that the latter position is correct, Chapters of Dependency Grammar tells the story of how dependency-oriented grammatical description developed from Antiquity up to the early 20th century. From Priscian’s Rome to Dmitrievsky’s Russia, from the French Encyclopaedia to Stephen W. Clark’s school grammars in 19th century America, it is shown how the concept of dependencies (asymmetric word-to-word relations) surfaced again and again, assuming a central place in syntax. A particularly intriguing aspect of the storyline is that even without any direct contact or influence, authors were making key breakthroughs in similar directions. In the works of Sámuel Brassai, a Transylvanian polymath, and Franz Kern, a German grammarian, the first dependency trees appear in 1873 and 1883, respectively, predating Tesnière’s stemmas by several decades.
Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
Author:
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080547842
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 26924
Book Description
The first edition of ELL (1993, Ron Asher, Editor) was hailed as "the field's standard reference work for a generation". Now the all-new second edition matches ELL's comprehensiveness and high quality, expanded for a new generation, while being the first encyclopedia to really exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics. * The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field * An entirely new work, with new editors, new authors, new topics and newly commissioned articles with a handful of classic articles * The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics through the online edition * Ground-breaking and International in scope and approach * Alphabetically arranged with extensive cross-referencing * Available in print and online, priced separately. The online version will include updates as subjects develop ELL2 includes: * c. 7,500,000 words * c. 11,000 pages * c. 3,000 articles * c. 1,500 figures: 130 halftones and 150 colour * Supplementary audio, video and text files online * c. 3,500 glossary definitions * c. 39,000 references * Extensive list of commonly used abbreviations * List of languages of the world (including information on no. of speakers, language family, etc.) * Approximately 700 biographical entries (now includes contemporary linguists) * 200 language maps in print and online Also available online via ScienceDirect – featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases, making navigation flexible and easy. For more information, pricing options and availability visit www.info.sciencedirect.com. The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics Ground-breaking in scope - wider than any predecessor An invaluable resource for researchers, academics, students and professionals in the fields of: linguistics, anthropology, education, psychology, language acquisition, language pathology, cognitive science, sociology, the law, the media, medicine & computer science. The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080547842
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 26924
Book Description
The first edition of ELL (1993, Ron Asher, Editor) was hailed as "the field's standard reference work for a generation". Now the all-new second edition matches ELL's comprehensiveness and high quality, expanded for a new generation, while being the first encyclopedia to really exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics. * The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field * An entirely new work, with new editors, new authors, new topics and newly commissioned articles with a handful of classic articles * The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics through the online edition * Ground-breaking and International in scope and approach * Alphabetically arranged with extensive cross-referencing * Available in print and online, priced separately. The online version will include updates as subjects develop ELL2 includes: * c. 7,500,000 words * c. 11,000 pages * c. 3,000 articles * c. 1,500 figures: 130 halftones and 150 colour * Supplementary audio, video and text files online * c. 3,500 glossary definitions * c. 39,000 references * Extensive list of commonly used abbreviations * List of languages of the world (including information on no. of speakers, language family, etc.) * Approximately 700 biographical entries (now includes contemporary linguists) * 200 language maps in print and online Also available online via ScienceDirect – featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases, making navigation flexible and easy. For more information, pricing options and availability visit www.info.sciencedirect.com. The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics Ground-breaking in scope - wider than any predecessor An invaluable resource for researchers, academics, students and professionals in the fields of: linguistics, anthropology, education, psychology, language acquisition, language pathology, cognitive science, sociology, the law, the media, medicine & computer science. The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field