Philosophy of linguistics

Geoffrey Pullum

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Philosophy of linguistics

Geoffrey Pullum

School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

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Linguistics in 1945 was a modest discipline, with much to be modest about.1 Very few universities had linguistics departments; the profession was tiny. The history of American linguistics (on which this brief chapter concentrates, because it has been the main focus of philosophical interest) goes back barely a hundred years. Its foundational documents include the Handbook of American Indian Languages (Boas 1911), a posthumously reconstructed lecture course by Ferdinand de Saussure(1916), and Leonard Bloomfield’s general survey of the field Language (1933).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945-2015
Editors	Iain Thomson, Kelly.M. Becker
Place of Publication	Cambridge
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Pages	49-59
Number of pages	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316779651.006
Publication status	Published - 21 Nov 2019

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