Full 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.
Contents
1. Foreword & Acknowledgements; 2. Honorary President's Address (by Koerner, E.F.K.); 3. Editors' introduction; 4. Part I. European linguistics in the 17th and late 18th centuries; 5. "Inversions of word order generate higher costs": Continuity and development of a topos since the rationalist language theories of the 17th century (by Hassler, Gerda); 6. Qui a ecrit la Grammaire generale et raisonnee? (by Colombat, Bernard); 7. Travail du pouvoir et productions sur la 'langue francaise' au XVIIe siecle (by Maziere, Francine); 8. The main characteristics of grammar-writing in Slovenia between 1584 and 1758 (by Ahacic, Kozma); 9. Part II. Linguistics in the late 18th and 19th centuries; 10. Western grammars of the Chinese language in the 18th and 19th centuries: Studies on 'cenemes' and word formation (by Gianninoto, Mariarosaria); 11. L'universalite du discours et le genie des langues dans la Grammaire philosophique et litteraire (1823-1824) de Nicolas Paquis de Sauvigny (by Wakoulenko, Serhii); 12. The reception of Court de Gebelin in 19th-century Portuguese grammar: The case of the anonymous Regras de Grammatica Portugueza (1841) (by Kemmler, Rolf); 13. Morphologie du langage et typologie linguistique: La connexion 'Schleicher - Saint-Petersbourg' (by Swiggers, Pierre); 14. L'evolution du terme 'semiologie' chez Saussure: 1881-1891 (by Chidichimo, Alessandro); 15. Part III. Theoretical issues in the 20th-century linguistic thought; 16. Questioning the idea of 'founding text': Harris's Discourse Analysis and French Analyse du discours (by Leon, Jacqueline); 17. Earlier and later anti-psychologism in linguistics (by Elffers-van Ketel, Els); 18. Looking for a semantic theory: The path taken by Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (1931-1960) (by Godart-Wendling, Beatrice); 19. Jakobson's circles (by Thomas, Margaret); 20. Part IV. Russian and Soviet linguistics; 21. Soviet linguistics and world linguistics (by Alpatov, Vladimir M.); 22. Anti-positivism in early Soviet linguistics: A Marxist or idealist stance? (by Seriot, Patrick); 23. De la fusion des langues au repli sur soi (URSS 1917-1953) (by Moret, Sebastien); 24. Semantics as a background for (pre)semiotic trends in Russian intellectual history of the 1920s-1930s (and beyond) (by Velmezova, Ekaternia); 25. Presence de la Russie dans le reseau phonetique international (1886-1940) (by Galazzi, Enrica); 26. Index of biographical names (by Znaeseva, Irina); 27. Index of subjects and terms (by Znaeseva, Irina)
