The Limits of Structuralism

Forgotten Texts in the History of Modern Linguistics

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Av James McElvenny, University of Siegen) McElvenny, James (Researcher, Researcher, CRC Media of Co-operation, James Mcelvenny

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Based around seven primary texts spanning 130 years, this volume explores the conceptual boundaries of structuralism, a scholarly movement and associated body of doctrines foundational to modern linguistics and many other humanities and social sciences. Each chapter in the volume presents a classic — and yet today underappreciated — text that addresses questions crucial to the evolution of structuralism. The texts are made accessible to present-day English-speaking readers through translation and extensive critical notes; each text is also accompanied by a detailed introduction that places it in its intellectual and historical context and outlines the insights that it contains. The volume reveals the complex genealogy of our ideas and enriches our understanding of their contemporary form and use.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-03-23
Mått165 x 240 x 22 mm
Vikt648 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor336
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780192849045

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James McElvenny is a researcher in the Special Collaborative Research Centre 'Media of Co-operation' at the University of Siegen, having previously held positions at the University of Potsdam and the University of Edinburgh. He is a linguist and historian of science whose research focuses on the history of modern linguistics, and his books include Form and Formalism in Linguistics (Language Science Press, 2019) and Gabelentz and the Science of Language (Amsterdam University Press, 2019).

The contributors1: James McElvenny: Scouting the limits of structuralism2: Floris Solleveld: 'Primitive structures', polysynthesis, and Peter Stephen du Ponceau3: Margaret Thomas: Franz Boas' 'purely analytical approach' to language classification in the backdrop to American structuralism4: James McElvenny: Georg von der Gabelentz's typology: Humboldtian linguistics on the threshold of structuralism5: John E. Joseph: Grammaticalization and the sentimental evolution of Antoine Meillet6: Patrick Sériot: Roman Jakobson, language unions, and structuralism in Russia: Encounter or misunderstanding?7: Lorenzo Cigana: Louis Hjelmslev on the correlational structure of language: The place within the system8: Chloé Laplantine: Émile Benveniste on the relation between linguistic and social structures: 'Let us then consider that language interprets society'ReferencesIndex