Fifty Key Thinkers on Language and Linguistics

Thomas, Margaret:
Fifty key thinkers on language and linguistics / Margaret Thomas. - London [u.a.] : Routledge, 2011. - XVII, 306 S. - (Routledge key guides)
ISBN 978-0-415-37302-9
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ISBN 978-0-415-37303-6
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Beschreibung
What was the first language, and where did it come from? Do all languages have properties in common? What is the relationship of language to thought? Fifty Key Thinkers on Language and Linguistics explores how fifty of the most influential figures in the field have asked and have responded to classic questions about language. Each entry includes a discussion of the person’s life, work and ideas as well as the historical context and an analysis of his or her lasting contributions. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Alphabetical List of Contents. vi
Chronological List of Contents. ix
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Fifty Key Thinkers on Language and Linguistics.
   - Pāṇini. 3
   - Plato. 8
   - Aristotle. 13
   - Marcus Terentius Varro. 18
   - Language in the Bible. 24
   - Aelius Donatus and Priscian of Caesarea. 29
   - Sībawayhi. 34
   - "The First Grammarian" (twelfth century). 39
   - The Speculative Grammarians (fl. c. 1250-1400). 44
   - King Sejong the Great. 49
   - Antoine Arnauld and Claude Lancelot. 55
   - John Wilkins. 61
   - John Locke. 66
   - Samuel Johnson. 71
   - Étienne Bonnot, Abbé de Condillac. 76
   - Johann Gottfried Herder. 82
   - August Wilhelm von Schlegel and Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel. 87
   - Wilhelm von Humboldt. 92
   - Jacob Grimm. 97
   - Franz Bopp. 103
   - Friedrich Max Müller. 108
   - Paul Broca. 114
   - William Dwight Whitney. 119
   - James A. H. Murray. 124
   - Henry Sweet. 129
   - Jan Baudouin de Courtenay. 135
   - Karl Brugmann. 140
   - Ferdinand de Saussure. 145
   - Otto Jespersen. 151
   - Daniel Jones. 156
   - Edward Sapir. 162
   - Leonard Bloomfield. 167
   - Ludwig Wittgenstein. 173
   - John Rupert Firth. 178
   - Lev Semenovich Vygotsky. 184
   - Roman Jakobson. 190
   - Benjamin Lee Whorf. 195
   - Louis Hjelmslev. 201
   - J. L. Austin. 206
   - Kenneth L. Pike. 211
   - H. Paul Grice. 216
   - Joseph H. Greenberg. 222
   - Charles F. Hockett. 227
   - Roger William Brown. 233
   - M. A. K. Halliday. 238
   - William Labov. 243
   - Noam Chomsky. 249
   - Kenneth L. Hale. 255
   - James D. McCawley. 260
   - Deborah Cameron. 266
Glossary
Index

Autorin
MARGARET THOMAS is Professor of Linguistics, in the Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages and Literatures at Boston College. She is past president of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, and the author of Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition: A History (Routledge 2004). Curriculum vitae.

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