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Record Nr.

UNINA9910958862503321

Autore

Seuren Pieter A. M

Titolo

Saussure and Sechehaye: Myth and Genius : A Study in the History of Linguistics and the Foundations of Language

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2018

ISBN

9789004378155

9004378154

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 267 pages)

Disciplina

410.92/2

Soggetti

Linguistics - History

Psychology

Language and languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Copyright Page / Pieter A.M. Seuren -- Contents / Pieter A.M. Seuren -- Preface / Pieter A.M. Seuren -- Introduction / Pieter A.M. Seuren -- Who was Ferdinand de Saussure? / Pieter A.M. Seuren -- The Cours: A Critical Look / Pieter A.M. Seuren -- Charles-Albert Sechehaye / Pieter A.M. Seuren -- Sechehaye and the Great Subject-Predicate Debate / Pieter A.M. Seuren -- Structuralism, Rationalism and Romanticism in Psychology and Linguistics / Pieter A.M. Seuren -- Conclusions / Pieter A.M. Seuren.

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, Pieter Seuren argues that Ferdinand de Saussure has been grossly overestimated over the past century, while his junior colleague Albert Sechehaye has been undeservedly ignored. Saussure was anything but the great innovator he is generally believed to be. Sechehaye was a genius providing many trenchant analyses and anticipating many modern insights. The lives and works of both men are discussed in detail and they are placed in the cultural, intellectual and social environment of their day. Much attention is paid to the theoretical issues involved, in particular to the notion and history of structuralism, to the great subject-predicate debate that dominated linguistic theory at the time, and to questions of methodology in the theory of language.