03233nam 2200637 a 450 991078172770332120230421050605.01-283-31293-X978661331293890-272-7688-9(CKB)2550000000049988(EBL)784343(OCoLC)757390692(SSID)ssj0000555499(PQKBManifestationID)11386062(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000555499(PQKBWorkID)10519130(PQKB)10171611(MiAaPQ)EBC784343(Au-PeEL)EBL784343(CaPaEBR)ebr10509580(EXLCZ)99255000000004998819930813d1993 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSigns, science and politics[electronic resource] philosophies of language in Europe, 1700-1830 /Lia Formigari ; translated by William DoddAmsterdam ;Philadelphia J. Benjamins19931 online resource (228 p.)Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series III, Studies in the history of the language sciences,0304-0720 ;v. 70Rev. and enlarged ed. of: L'esperienza e il segno. Roma : Editori Riuniti, 1990.1-55619-365-3 90-272-4557-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.SIGNS, SCIENCE AND POLITICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Preface & Acknowledgements; LIST OF ORIGINAL PLACES OF PUBLICATION; Table of contents; Chapter 1. The Semiotic Control of Experience; Chapter 2. The Semiotic Control of Civil Society; Chapter 3. The Birth of Idealism in Linguistics: The History of a Transition; Bibliography; Indexof Authors; Index of Subjects & TermsThis book tells the story of how 18th-century European philosophy used Locke's theory of signs to build a natural history of speech and to investigate the semiotic tools with which nature and civil society can be controlled. The story ends at the point where this approach to language sciences was called into question. Its epilogue is the description of the birth of an alternative between empiricism and idealism in late 18th- and early 19th-century theories of language.This alternative has given rise to such irreducible dichotomies as empirical linguistics vs. speculative linguistics, philosophAmsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science.Series III,Studies in the history of the language sciences ;v. 70.Language and languagesPhilosophyHistorySemioticsHistoryLinguisticsEuropeHistoryLanguage and languagesPhilosophyHistory.SemioticsHistory.LinguisticsHistory.401Formigari Lia1931-156069Formigari Lia1931-156069Dodd William288108MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781727703321Signs, science and politics3814198UNINA