William Dwight Whitney and the Science of LanguageJohns Hopkins University Press, 13/04/2005 - 360 páginas Linguistics, or the science of language, emerged as an independent field of study in the nineteenth century, amid the religious and scientific ferment of the Victorian era. William Dwight Whitney, one of that period's most eminent language scholars, argued that his field should be classed among the social sciences, thus laying a theoretical foundation for modern sociolinguistics. William Dwight Whitney and the Science of Language offers a full-length study of America's pioneer professional linguist, the founder and first president of the American Philological Association and a renowned Orientalist. In recounting Whitney's remarkable career, Stephen G. Alter examines the intricate linguistic debates of that period as well as the politics of establishing language study as a full-fledged science. Whitney's influence, Alter argues, extended to the German Neogrammarian movement and the semiotic theory of Ferdinand de Saussure. This exploration of an early phase of scientific language study provides readers with a unique perspective on Victorian intellectual life as well as on the transatlantic roots of modern linguistic theory. |
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... WDW , 25 April 1851 ; WDW to JDW , Sr. , 25 November 1850 , WP ; Whitney Journal , 25 October 1851 , quoted in Diehl , Americans and German Scholarship , 181 , n . 22 . 51. WDW to E. E. Salisbury , 3 January 1853 , SP . 52. James Hadley to ...
... WDW to Elizabeth Whitney Putnam , 2 December 1854 , WP . 66. WDW to Elizabeth Wooster Baldwin , 8 April 1856 ; WDW to Elizabeth Whitney Putnam , 18 April 1856 , WP . 67. WDW to JDW , 23 October , 4 November 1855 , WP . 68. JDW , Sr. , to ...
... WDW to JDW , 20 April 1858 , WP . 7. WDW to JDW , 20 April , 4 May 1858 ; WDW to JDW , Sr. , 2 May 1858 , WP . Proceed- ings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 12 ( 1858 ) : 286-87 . Whit- ney's paper was ...
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A Pathclearer in Linguistic Science | 1 |
Indological Foreshadowings | 39 |
Victorian Language Debates | 53 |
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