Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5576 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin
| Message 17 of 23 14 May 2015 at 11:14am | IP Logged |
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.
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Longinus Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4888 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 |
Henkkles wrote:
Lyle Campbell - Introduction to Historical Linguistics |
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The Campbell book is excellent! Of course, it only covers comparative and historical
linguistics, but this is the interesting part of linguistics, yes?
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Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4264 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian
| Message 19 of 23 19 May 2015 at 2:34pm | IP Logged |
Longinus wrote:
Henkkles wrote:
Lyle Campbell - Introduction to Historical
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The Campbell book is excellent! Of course, it only covers comparative and historical
linguistics, but this is the interesting part of linguistics, yes? |
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My favorite part of linguistics in fact.
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kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4900 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 |
Retinend wrote:
Sorry Kanewai, but however useful Post-Structuralist "philosophy" may
be to literary critics or feminists, it is emphatically of no use whatsoever to people
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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.
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Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5356 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes Speaks: Spanish*
| Message 21 of 23 20 May 2015 at 5:44pm | IP Logged |
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.
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Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4650 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 |
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.
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daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4532 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 |
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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