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A History of ‘The History of the Language’
Language & Communication, 1986For historians of the study of language in Britain it has become a commonplace that the eighteenth century, in which the discourses of prescriptivism predominated, was superseded by a nineteenth-century reaction against such discourses. One such historian has declared that, ‘perhaps the greatest legacy of the nineteenth-century philologist was the ...
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A history of the history of programming languages
Communications of the ACM, 2007"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." ---Isaac Newton, in a letter to Robert Hooke, Feb. 15, 1676
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1982
Let us begin with a dream perhaps a nightmare: we dream that we are wandering through interminable corridors flanked by shelves tightly packed with books, collections of periodicals, and reprints. After a while we fear that we have been trapped in Jorge Luis Borges' "total Library," but we are relieved to discover that the Library is surrounded by ...
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Let us begin with a dream perhaps a nightmare: we dream that we are wandering through interminable corridors flanked by shelves tightly packed with books, collections of periodicals, and reprints. After a while we fear that we have been trapped in Jorge Luis Borges' "total Library," but we are relieved to discover that the Library is surrounded by ...
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History of Tamazight Languages
While the historical linguistics of Tamazight has garnered increasing scholarly attention in recent years, the discipline remains in a nascent stage, characterized by numerous unresolved issues that necessitate sustained critical examination and methodological advancement.openaire +2 more sources
2017
This chapter assesses the particular language quirks of Beowulf’s transmission. The failure of the scribes to comprehend the language of Beowulf would not be relevant to the transmission of the text if the task of the scribe were to reproduce the letters encountered in the exemplar without modification.
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This chapter assesses the particular language quirks of Beowulf’s transmission. The failure of the scribes to comprehend the language of Beowulf would not be relevant to the transmission of the text if the task of the scribe were to reproduce the letters encountered in the exemplar without modification.
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Languages, Language History, and the History of Linguistics
Orbis, 1995HOENIGSWALD, Henry M., SWIGGERS, Pierre
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2000
This classroom-tested volume aspires to be a brief but technically and factually accurate exposition of linguistic description and history. Whether studied as prime subject or as background information, it should help students understand the assumptions and reasoning that underlie the contents of their handbooks and etymological dictionaries.
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This classroom-tested volume aspires to be a brief but technically and factually accurate exposition of linguistic description and history. Whether studied as prime subject or as background information, it should help students understand the assumptions and reasoning that underlie the contents of their handbooks and etymological dictionaries.
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2006
Contributors Preface 1. Language, history and Language and History 2. The end of linear narrative? Reflections on the historiography of English 3. History and comparative philology 4. Word-stories: etymology as history 5. Language: object or event? The integration of language and life 6. Indeterminacy of meaning and semantic change 7.
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Contributors Preface 1. Language, history and Language and History 2. The end of linear narrative? Reflections on the historiography of English 3. History and comparative philology 4. Word-stories: etymology as history 5. Language: object or event? The integration of language and life 6. Indeterminacy of meaning and semantic change 7.
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The Social History of Language.
The American Historical Review, 1989Elizabeth Tonkin +2 more
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Why does Language Matter to History (and History to Language)?
Journal of the Philosophy of History, 2010Frank Ankersmit, Jeff Malpas
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