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Record Nr.

UNINA9910960673303321

Autore

Guillaume Gustave <1883-1960.>

Titolo

Foundations for a science of language / / Gustave Guillaume ; excerpts from the manuscripts translated by Walter Hirtle & John Hewson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 1984

ISBN

1-283-31413-4

9786613314130

90-272-8013-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Collana

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, , 0304-0763 ; ; v. 31

Altri autori (Persone)

HirtleWalter

HewsonJohn <1930-2022.>

Disciplina

410

Soggetti

Linguistics

Language and languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translation of: Principes de linguistique théorique.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. The problematics of a science of language -- pt. 2. From problematics to systematics in the study of language -- pt. 3. Sign and significate -- pt. 4. The act of language -- pt. 5. Language and system -- pt. 6. Thought and language.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume presents, for the first time in English, a representative view of Gustave Guillaume's thought. The texts, drawn mainly from his manuscript notes for lectures at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris, were selected as far as possible for their accessibility, as requiring no prior knowledge of his work. The result is a panorama of the far-ranging and often provocative thought of one of the twentieth century's most original linguists.