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PODCAST

History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences

James McElvenny

History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences explores the history of the study of language in its varied social and cultural contexts.

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Podcast episode 13: Interview with John Joseph on...

History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences ·

2021/02/28

In this interview, we talk to John Joseph about Ferdinand de Saussure. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Archive DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4767939 References for Episode 13 Primary Sources Arnauld, Antoine and Claude Lancelot (1660), Grammaire générale et raisonnée…Read more ›

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25:21

Podcast episode 12: Language as a system – Ferdinand...

History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences ·

2021/01/31

In this episode, we look at Ferdinand de Saussure’s contributions to linguistics, which are widely considered to be foundational to the later movement of structuralism. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Archive DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4767891 References for Episode…Read more ›

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25:52

Podcast episode 11: Interview with Floris Solleveld...

History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences ·

2020/11/30

In this interview, we talk to Floris Solleveld about the character of linguistic research in the 19th century. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Archive DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4767978 References for Episode 11 Primary Sources Adelung, Johann Christoph and…Read more ›

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22:34

Podcast episode 10: Neogrammarian critics – Hugo...

History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences ·

2020/10/31

In this episode, we examine some of the major critiques directed against the Neogrammarians and see what they tell us about the state of linguistics around the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century. We focus in particular on…Read more ›

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20:58

Podcast episode 9: The Neogrammarians

History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences ·

2020/09/30

In this episode, we introduce the Neogrammarians, the dominant school of linguistics in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Archive DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4767863 References for Episode 9 Primary Sources Brugman, Karl…Read more ›

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20:51

Podcast episode 8: Language as an institution –...

History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences ·

2020/08/31

In this episode, we look first at the critiques of Schleicher’s “physical” and Steinthal’s “psychological” theory of language put forward by the American linguist William Dwight Whitney. We then turn to Whitney’s own conception of language as a “human institution”…Read more ›

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31:05

Podcast episode 7: Interview with Clara Stockigt on...

History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences ·

2020/06/29

In this interview, we talk to Dr Clara Stockigt about missionary grammars in Australia and their links to the academic linguistic scholarship of the time. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Archive DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4767849 References for Episode…Read more ›

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22:44

Podcast episode 6: Schleicher’s morphology and...

History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences ·

2020/05/30

In this episode, we look first at August Schleicher’s proposal for a linguistic “morphology” and its intellectual background in nineteenth-century biology. We then compare Schleicher’s approach to the scheme of language classification developed by H. Steinthal within Völkerpsychologie, or “psychology…Read more ›

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21:33

Podcast episode 5: Comparativism in the mid-19th...

History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences ·

2020/04/29

In this episode, we look at the expansion of comparative-historical linguistics around the middle of the nineteenth century. We focus in particular on the figure of August Schleicher, the great consolidator of the field, and his “materialist” philosophy of science.…Read more ›

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34:06

Podcast episode 4: Interview with Jürgen Trabant on...

History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences ·

2020/03/30

In this episode, we talk to Jürgen Trabant about Wilhelm von Humboldt. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Archive DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4767830 References for Episode 4 Primary sources Humboldt, Wilhelm von (1836), ‘Über die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues’,…Read more ›

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Podcast episode 3: Language classification

History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences ·

2020/02/29

In this episode, we look at language classification in the first half of the nineteenth century and at some key ideas in the work of Wilhelm von Humboldt. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Archive DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4767813…Read more ›

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20:43

Podcast episode 2: Comparative-historical linguistics...

History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences ·

2020/01/31

In this episode, we look at the emergence of comparative-historical grammar, focusing on the work of Franz Bopp and Jacob Grimm. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Archive DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4767805 References for Episode 2 Primary Sources Bopp,…Read more ›

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17:33

Podcast episode 1: Pre-history of...

History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences ·

2019/12/30

The first series of the History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences Podcast looks at the history of modern linguistics. We begin in this episode by examining the pre-history of comparative-historical grammar. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google…Read more ›

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