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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... ideas , " not by any natural connexion ... for then there would be but one Language amongst all Men ; but by a voluntary Imposition , whereby such a Word is made arbitrarily the Mark of such an Idea . ” Because the connection between an ...
... idea to language only by analogy . It was a vivid way in which to reemphasize the paradox he had described in his earlier lectures : “ We want an idea that is to exclude caprice as well as necessity- that is to include indi- vidual ...
... idea that language and the human mind had evolved in tandem , Whitney avoided acknowledging the fact that Darwin himself had been the chief purveyor of that idea . Indeed , he mentioned the famous naturalist by name only in the final ...
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A Pathclearer in Linguistic Science | 1 |
Indological Foreshadowings | 39 |
Victorian Language Debates | 53 |
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