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| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5567 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 17 of 23 14 May 2015 at 11:14am | IP Logged | |||||
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The flip side of the coin to Chomsky are the ordinary language theorists and their
developments in semantics, pragmatics and socio-linguistics. JL Austin's How to Do Things With Words and John Searle's Speech Acts are the heavier texts but Geoffrey Leech's The Principles of Pragmatics condenses much of the theory and research for the non-specialist. Edited by Elexi on 14 May 2015 at 11:14am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Longinus Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4879 days ago 26 posts - 53 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Polish, Macedonian | Message 18 of 23 15 May 2015 at 2:47pm | IP Logged | |||||
The Campbell book is excellent! Of course, it only covers comparative and historical linguistics, but this is the interesting part of linguistics, yes? 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4255 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian | Message 19 of 23 19 May 2015 at 2:34pm | IP Logged | |||||
My favorite part of linguistics in fact. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4891 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 20 of 23 19 May 2015 at 10:12pm | IP Logged | |||||
I didn't say that I liked them! (I don't. At all) - but they're part of the dialogue, so it's good to know that they're out there. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5347 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 21 of 23 20 May 2015 at 5:44pm | IP Logged | |||||
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One of the most striking books about language, knowledge and philosophy is Wittgenstein's Philosophische Untersuchungen. It should be read in conjunction with his Tractatus logico-philosophicus to fully make sense of the issues raised in it.
While revelatory in the history of Western thought, it is noteworthy that some of his descriptions had been provided millennia earlier in Indian philosophy, that great repository of the tallest peaks mankind has reached in logic and epistemology. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4641 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 22 of 23 20 May 2015 at 5:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Although I don't think he counts as internationally influential, Claude Hagège is the leading contemporary linguist in France. I don't know if any of his books have been translated to English, but if you read French, then any of these are quite interesting:
L'Enfant aux deux langues, Éditions Odile Jacob, 1996 Le Français, histoire d'un combat, 1996 L'Homme de paroles : contribution linguistique aux sciences humaines, Fayard, 1996 Halte à la mort des langues, Éditions Odile Jacob, 2001 Combat pour le français : au nom de la diversité des langues et des cultures, Éditions Odile Jacob, 2006 Dictionnaire amoureux des langues, Éditions Plon-Odile Jacob, 2009 Contre la pensée unique, Éditions Odile Jacob, 2012 He has his own website where you can find more information. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4523 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 23 of 23 20 May 2015 at 6:14pm | IP Logged | |||||
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As far as influential authors are concerned, one would probably want to read Grimm and Verner. I like it more practical, Hans Krahe's "Germanische Sprachwissenschaft" is an essential source I wouldn't want to miss.
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