Last Papers in Linguistic Historiography.

Intro -- LAST PAPERS IN LINGUISTIC HISTORIOGRAPHY -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Part I. Positions and problems in the history of linguistics -- Chapter 1. The historiography of linguistics past, present, future -- 1. Prefatory remarks -- 2. Motivations for writing the history of linguistics -- 2.1 Summing-up histories of linguistics -- 2.2 Celebratory or propagandistic histories of linguistics -- 2.3 Detached histories of linguistics (Problemgeschichte) -- 2.4 Historiography of linguistics -- 3. The study of the history of linguistics: Early beginnings to the present -- 3.1 Early phases of history-writing in linguistics -- 3.2 Mid-20th-century efforts in history of linguistics -- 3.3 Late 20th-century work in the history of linguistics -- 4. Approaches to linguistic historiography -- 4.1 History of linguistics and intellectual history -- 4.2 History of linguistics and the philosophy of history -- 4.3 Linguistic historiography and history &amp -- philosophy of science -- 4.4 Linguistic historiography and sociology of science -- 4.5 Toward a synthesis of differing approaches to linguistic history-writing -- 5. The consolidation of linguistic historiography -- 6. Remaining challenges in linguistic historiography -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 2. Pour une historiographie engagée -- or where historians of linguistics could still do better -- 1. The issues -- 2. The challenge -- 3. Continuing methodological and philosophical disagreements -- 4. Observations on the development of history-writing in linguistics -- 5. Some possible remedies and changes in direction -- 6. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 3. La place du Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris parmi les principales revues de linguistique de son temps -- 1. Remarques préliminaires.

2. Petit survol historique -- 3. En guise de conclusion -- Remerciements -- Références bibliographiques -- Appendice -- Chapter 4. On the disappearance of August Schleicher in the writings of the Neogrammarians: The case of the analogy concept in historical lingustics -- 1. Introductory observations -- 2. The place of 'analogy' in the neogrammarian doctrine -- 3. The treatment of Schleicher in linguistic historiography -- 4. 'Analogy' in 19th-century linguistic thought -- 4.1 Analogy in Whitney (1867, 1875) -- 4.2 Analogy in Baudouin de Courtenay (1868) -- 5. The treatment of 'analogy' in Scherer (1868) -- 6. The place of 'analogy' in Schleicher (1860) -- 7. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part II. Studies concerning the work of individual scholars -- Chapter 5. Baudouin de Courtenay's relationship with Schleicher -- 1. Introductory remarks -- 2. The Schleicher-Baudouin connection -- 2.1 Baudouin de Courtenay's early publications -- 2.2 Baudouin's assessment of Schleicher's legacy -- 3. A brief summing-up -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 6. Hermann Paul, Saussure, and general linguistic theory -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Problems in recognizing Paul as a general linguist -- 3. Paul vs. Gabelentz as forerunners of descriptive linguists -- 4. Non-historical aspects of Paul's theories of language study -- 4.1 Descriptive vs. historical linguistics and the concept of language state -- 4.2 Language custom vs. individual speech act -- 4.3 Formal and material connections between words -- 5. Terminological and conceptual correspondences -- 6. Concluding remarks -- 7. Coda -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Postscript -- Chapter 7. Edward Sapir: Assessments of his life and work -- 1. Introductory observations -- 2. Obituaries and biographical sketches, 1939-1952 -- 3. Intellectual influences and exchanges.

4. Comments on Sapir's work in the first half of the 20th century -- 5. The reception of Sapir's ideas in the second half of the 20th century -- 6. The discussion of particular aspects of Sapir's theories -- 6.1 Language typology and language classification -- 6.2 Sapir's contribution to phonological theory -- 6.3 Sapir's contribution to historical-comparative linguistics -- 6.4 Sapir's 'psychology of culture' and other non-linguistic ideas -- 7. Edward Sapir and the so-called 'Sapir-Whorf hypothesis' -- 8. Sapir's other engagements, including his literary pursuits -- 9. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 8. The Baxtin myth and its historiography -- 1. Prelude: Some remarks on Russian linguistic historiography -- 2. The authorship of Marxizm and the philosophy of language -- 3. Coda -- Acknowledgements -- References -- List of biographical names in the history of linguistics.

This volume brings together what has occupied the author during his many years as editor of Historiographia Linguistica. Namely, how the history of linguistics has developed into a major field of scholarly research, and that the discussion of questions of method and epistemology needs to be continued to avoid stereotypical practice.

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