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28Language and experience in 17th-century British philosophyJohn Benjamins. 1988.The focus of this volume is the crisis of the traditional view of the relationship between words and things and the emergence of linguistic arbitrarism in 17th ...
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25Language and Society in the Late Eighteenth CenturyJournal of the History of Ideas 35 (2): 275. 1974.
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14Idéologie et langage en ItalieHistoire Epistémologie Langage 1 (4): 137-141. 1982.Ideologie et langage en Italie (L. Formigari) The author notes the influence of the Ideologists, after that of Condillac, on linguistic studies in Italy, in spite of the suspicion aroused by the materalist views that are supposed to accompany their philosophical positions. As early as 1796, there appears a trend of thought close to Ideology, which aims at theorizing on the relationship between language, society and culture. This was a fundamental problem for a country that had not yet found its …Read more
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14De l'idéalisme dans les théories du langage. Histoire d'une transitionHistoire Epistémologie Langage 1 (X): 59-80. 1988.
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9A History of Language PhilosophiesJohn Benjamin. 2004.Theory and history combine in this book to form a coherent narrative of the debates on language and languages in the Western world, from ancient classic philosophy to the present, with a final glance at on-going discussions on language as a cognitive tool, on its bodily roots and philogenetic role.An introductory chapter reviews the epistemological areas that converge into, or contribute to, language philosophy, and discusses their methods, relations, and goals. In this context, the status of la…Read more
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7Leibniz, Humboldt and the Origin of ComparativismJ. Benjamins. 1990.Both Leibniz and Humboldt are scholars in whose work we find a passionate interest in the history and development of languages combined with a strong theoretical commitment. Linking their names to linguistic comparativism draws attention to the contribution these scholars have made to the history of comparativism and also promotes discussion of the relationship of theory and practice in linguistic research in more general terms. In September 1986, a conference on Leibniz, Humboldt and the Origin…Read more
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6Signs, science, and politics: philosophies of language in Europe, 1700-1830John Benjamins. 1993.This book tells the story of how 18th-century European philosophy used Locke's theory of signs to build a natural history of speech and to investigate the semiotic tools with which nature and civil society can be controlled. The story ends at the point where this approach to language sciences was called into question. Its epilogue is the description of the birth of an alternative between empiricism and idealism in late 18th- and early 19th-century theories of language. This alternative has given…Read more
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4Opérations mentales et théories sémantiques. Le rôle du kantismeHistoire Epistémologie Langage 14 (2): 153-173. 1992.
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4Nativismo, Naturalismo, Empirismo. Un contributo al lessico della storiografia linguisticaBlityri (1-2): 175-19. 2019.An analysis of Anton Marty’s usage of nativism and empiricism as opposed terms in the controversy on the genetic theory of language (the so-called Nativismusstreit).
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4La lógica del pensamiento vivo. El lenguaje en la filosofía del Romanticismo alemánEdiciones del Serbal. 2007.Lia Formigari propone un recorrido en este libro que permite examinar ampliamente las teorías lingüísticas del Romanticismo alemán y su relación de continuidad y ruptura con los presupuestos de la Ilustración, así como con el nacimiento de la lingüística histórica en Europa. La lógica del pensamiento vivo es una obra que abarca un breve pero intenso periodo de la historia de la filosofía y de las teorías sobre el lenguaje, cubriendo la actividad filosófica de autores tan diversos como Hamann, He…Read more
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Philosophical Naturalism and the Language SciencesIn Willems Klaas & De Cuypere Ludovic (eds.), Naturalness and Iconicity in Language, John Benjamins Publishing. pp. 25-46. 2008.
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Letture di LockeIn Manetti Giovanni & Bertetti Paolo (eds.), Semiotica: testi esemplar. pp. 39-48. 2003.
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Geschichstphilosophie, Sprachpolitik und Sprachursprungstheorien in Italien im 18. JahrhundertIn Joachim Gessinger & Wolfert von Rahden (eds.), Theorien vom Ursprung der Sprache, De Gruyter. pp. 359-374. 1989.
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Eloge de l'abbé de Condillac, ou: du matérialisme dans les théories linguistiquesBeiträge Zur Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft 10 (2): 241-252. 2000.
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19th Century Philosophy |