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View article: Chapter 4 Language change
Chapter 4 Language change Open
Chapter 4 Languagec hange'JK: We oncet alked about the paper on languagec ontact wherey ou are quoted in the first footnotea nd then in the remainder of the paper not as ingle time, even if most of the problems raised are treated by you ex…
View article: Chapter 5 Varieties and variational linguistics
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Chapter 5 Varietiesa nd variational linguistics IntroductionOne of the most successful Coserian trichotomies,w hich has become part of the canonical terminology of linguistics,i st he distinction between diatopic, diastratic and diaphasic …
View article: Chapter 8 Philosophy of Language
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IntroductionThis chapter should probablybethe first in the book, since philosophy is the foundation of all knowledge,and Coseriu'sthinking is consistentlyphilosophical in two senses: first,i nt hat he alwaysa ims to return to 'thet hingst …
View article: Chapter 7 ‘Tradition and innovation’: the History of Linguistics
Chapter 7 ‘Tradition and innovation’: the History of Linguistics Open
7.1I ntroduction"Tradición ynovedad", 'tradition and innovation',isone of the principles presented in chapter 1, and as noted there, for Coseriu it is far more than simplyaprinciple that highlights the importance of the history of linguist…
View article: Chapter 11 Aesthetics
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IntroductionFor manyr eaders,t his chapter is probablyt he most unexpectedo ne in theb ook.Whys hould It alk about aesthetics?W ill it be about the aesthetics of al inguistic explanation or rather about the artistic creation by means of la…
View article: Chapter 3 On proper names, pragmatics and text linguistics
Chapter 3 On proper names, pragmatics and text linguistics Open
Chapter 3 On proper names, pragmaticsa nd text linguistics 'Coseriu […]arrivedwith the idea of doingsomething modeled on the Sodalizio Milanese;he tried to bring together people who were interestedinlinguistics:some in normative grammar, o…
View article: 4 Discourse traditions and the historicity of language: discourse traditional knowledge and discourse universes
4 Discourse traditions and the historicity of language: discourse traditional knowledge and discourse universes Open
This chapter has a strongly theoretical focus and is divided into three sections. The first section tackles the relationship between discourse traditions (DTs)and the general question of language historicity; the second section is dedicate…
View article: Acknowledgments
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High standards can only be met by drawing on the expertise of scholars from different subdisciplines of the respective field.
View article: The third wave of studies on DOM in Romance: An introduction to this volume
The third wave of studies on DOM in Romance: An introduction to this volume Open
Recent years have seen increased research interest in Differential Object Marking (DOM, Bossong 1982;1985; cf. also Bossong, this volume).DOM is not only the subject of specialized workshops but also figures frequently at conferences on la…
View article: Eugenio Coseriu on immediacy, distance and discourse traditions
Eugenio Coseriu on immediacy, distance and discourse traditions Open
Eugenio Coseriu on immediacy,d istance and discourset raditions* "[L]os aspectos interesantes del saber expresivo son los que presentan, en ambos sentidos, ciertog rado de generalidad.Tales aspectos pueden ser 'universales' o 'históricos'.…
View article: 3. Linguistic Norm in the Linguistic Theory of Eugenio Coseriu
3. Linguistic Norm in the Linguistic Theory of Eugenio Coseriu Open
The aim of this chapter is to illustrate Eugenio Coseriu’s conception oflinguisticnormconsidered as adescriptiveterm and to relate it a) to its place inCoseriu’s theory of language, b) to the history of linguistic thought, c) to normativec…
View article: Slow linguistics – a manifesto
Slow linguistics – a manifesto Open
Der vorliegende Text fordert in zehn Thesen eine Herangehensweise an linguistische Fragen, die sich aus der besonderen Natur des Objektes ergibt: menschliche Sprache ist nicht irgendein aussenstehendes Naturobjekt. Jede menschliche Sprache…