History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences

By James McElvenny

History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences explores the history of the study of language in its varied social and cultural contexts.

  1. 1.
    Podcast episode 12: Language as a system – Ferdinand de Saussure
    25:21
  2. 2.
    Podcast episode 11: Interview with Floris Solleveld on disciplinary linguistics in the 19th century
    25:52
  3. 3.
    Podcast episode 10: Neogrammarian critics – Hugo Schuchardt and Karl Vossler
    22:34
  4. 4.
    Podcast episode 9: The Neogrammarians
    20:57
  5. 5.
    Podcast episode 8: Language as an institution – William Dwight Whitney
    20:50
  6. 6.
    Podcast episode 7: Interview with Clara Stockigt on missionary grammars in Australia
    31:05
  7. 7.
    Podcast episode 6: Schleicher’s morphology and Steinthal’s Völkerpsychologie
    22:43
  8. 8.
    Podcast episode 5: Comparativism in the mid-19th century – August Schleicher and materialism
    21:33
  1. 9.
    Podcast episode 4: Interview with Jürgen Trabant on Wilhelm von Humboldt
    34:05
  2. 10.
    Podcast episode 3: Language classification
    19:13

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