Cfp – SHESL conference 2024 – Ethnolinguistics – Linguistic anthropology:...
Call for papersSHESL conference 2024Ethnolinguistics – Linguistic anthropology: history and current trendsorganized by Chloé Laplantine (HTL), Cécile Leguy (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – LACITO),...
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Cavaliere, Ricardo. 2023. História da gramática no Brasil, séculos XVI a XIX. São Paulo: Editora Vozes. 656 p. ISBN 9786557136348Publisher’s website A origem da gramática está no interesse de...
View ArticlePodcast episode 33: Formalism and distributionalism
In this episode, we examine the formalist aspects of the linguistic work of Edward Sapir and Leonard Bloomfield, and see how their methods were turned into the doctrines of distributionalism by the...
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Most, Glenn W., Dagmar Schäfer & Mårten Söderblom Saarela, ed. 2023. Plurilingualism in Traditional Eurasian Scholarship. Thinking in Many Tongues. Leiden: Brill. (Ancient Languages and...
View ArticlePodcast episode 34: Interview with Mary Laughren on Central Australia...
In this episode, we talk to Mary Laughren about research into the languages of Central Australia in the mid-twentieth century, with a focus on the contributions of American linguist Ken Hale. Download...
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Laplantine, Chloé, John E. Joseph & Émilie Aussant, ed. 2023. Simplicité et complexité des langues dans l’histoire des théories linguistiques. Paris: SHESL (HEL Livres, 3). 486 p. ISBN...
View ArticlePodcast episode 35: Interview with Nick Thieberger on historical...
In this interview, we talk to Nick Thieberger about the value of historical documentation for linguistic research, and how this documentation can be preserved and made accessible today and in the...
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Waugh Linda R., Monique Monville-Burston, John E. Joseph, ed. 2023. The Cambridge History of Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 900 p. ISBN 9780511842788. DOI:...
View ArticleInvitation to CHSTM online working group History of the Language Sciences
Online working group: History of the Language SciencesConveners: Judith Kaplan (CHSTM), Floris Solleveld (University of Bristol) Hosted by the Consortium for History of Science, Technology, and...
View ArticleIntentionality in phenomenology and speech act theory
Els Elffers 1. Introduction Phenomenology covers a large area, and the same is true of speech act theory. Here I will focus on one point of contact between them, namely intentionality. Intentionality...
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Savatovsky, Dan, Mariangela Albano, Thi Kieu Ly Pham & Valérie Spaëth, ed. 2023. Language Learning and Teaching in Missionary and Colonial Contexts. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 496 p....
View ArticlePodcast episode 36: Interview with Ghil‘ad Zuckermann on revivalistics
In this interview, we talk to Ghil‘ad Zuckermann about language reclamation and revival in Australia and around the world. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode...
View ArticleReview of: Cassiodorus. Institutiones humanarum litterarum. Textus Φ Δ.
Review of Morresi, Ilaria, ed. 2022. Cassiodorus. Institutiones humanarum litterarum. Textus Φ Δ. Turnhout: Brepols (Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina, 99A). 512 p. ISBN...
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Dagostino, Carmen, Marianne Mithun & Keren Rice. 2023. The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America: A Comprehensive Guide, Vol 1. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. 767 p. ISBN...
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Tourette, Eric, ed. 2023. Les idées linguistiques des moralistes. Paris: Honoré Champion (Moralia). 200 p. ISBN 9782745360120Publisher’s website Observer comment vivent les hommes implique d’observer...
View ArticlePodcast housekeeping December 2023
In this brief audio clip, we provide an update on what’s been happening with the podcast – and what’s coming up. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts McElvenny, James. 2024. A History...
View ArticleCfp: “Legacy materials as data sources for language description and...
Workshop“Legacy materials as data sources for language description and documentation”Paris, Université Paris CitéApril 11-12th, 2024 This workshop, to be held on April 11th and 12th 2024 in Paris,...
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Garrett, Andrew. 2023. The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall. Language, Memory, and Indigenous California. Cambridge: MIT Press. 472 p. ISBN 9780262547093Publisher’s website In January 2021, at a time when...
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Floris SolleveldUniversity of Bristol On 28 May 1940, a group of 33 people met at the British and Foreign Bible Society headquarters (‘Bible House’) in London for a conference on African languages....
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McElvenny, James. 2024. A History of Modern Linguistics: From the Beginnings to World War II. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 208 p. ISBN 9781474470025Publisher’s website In this book,...
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