The Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics

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Keith Allan
OUP Oxford, Mar 28, 2013 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 946 pages
In this outstanding book leading scholars from around the world examine the history of linguistics from ancient origins to the present. They consider every aspect of the field from language origins to neurolinguistics, explore linguistic traditions in east and west, chronicle centuries of explanations for language structures, meanings, and usage, and look at how it has been practically applied. The book is organized in six parts. The first looks at the origins of language, the invention of writing, the nature of gesture, and sign languages. Part II examines the history of the analysis and description of sound systems. Part III considers the history of linguistics in China, Korea, Japan, India, and the Middle East, as well as the history of the study of Semitic and Afro-Asiatic. Part IV examines the history of grammar and morphology in the west from the classical world to the present. Part V surveys the history of lexicography semantics, pragmatics, and text and discourse studies. Part VI looks at the history the application of linguistics in fields that include the language classification; social and cultural theory; psychology and the brain sciences; education and translation; computational science; and the development of linguistic corpora. The book ends with a history of the philosophy of linguistics. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics makes a significant contribution to the historiography of linguistics. It will also be a valuable reference for scholars and students in linguists and related fields, including philosophy and cognitive science.
 

Contents

From Semitic to AfroAsiatic
The Origins and the Evolution of Language
The History of Writing as a History of Linguistics
History of the Study of Gesture
The History of Sign Language Linguistics
Orthography and the Early History of Phonetics
From IPA to Praat and Beyond
NineteenthCentury Study of Sound Change from Rask to Saussure
European Linguistics since Saussure
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Functional and Cognitive Grammars
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Lexicography from Earliest Times to the Present
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The Logicophilosophical Tradition
ccclxviii
Lexical Semantics from Speculative Etymology to Structuralist Semantics
dii
Poststructuralist and Cognitive Approaches to Meaning
vi
A Brief Sketch of the Historic Development of Pragmatics
xxiii
Meaning in Texts and Contexts
li

Discoverers of the Phoneme
A History of Sound Symbolism
vii
East Asian Linguistics
xxvii
Linguistics in India
xlviii
Philosophys Legacy to Grammar
cv
Pedagogical Grammars Before the Eighteenth Century
clxvi
Vernaculars and the Idea of a Standard Language
clxxxv
WordBased Morphology from Aristotle to Modern WP Word and Paradigm
ccii
General or Universal Grammar from Plato to Chomsky
ccxxiv
American Descriptivism Structuralism
ccxlviii
A Sketch
cclxix
Comparative Historical and Typological Linguistics since the Eighteenth
lxxvi
Language Culture and Society
cvi
Language the Mind and the Brain
cxviii
The Intertranslatability of Languages Translation and Language
cxxxvi
Computational Linguistics
cliv
The History of Corpus Linguistics
clxxv
Philosophy of Linguistics
cxcv
References
ccxxvii
Index
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Keith Allan is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Monash University. His books include Linguistic Meaning (two volumes, Routledge 1986), Natural Language Semantics (Blackwell, 2001), and The Western Classical Tradition in Linguistics, Second edition (Equinox, 2010). He is co-author with Kate Burridge of Euphemism and Dysphemism (OUP, 1991) and Forbidden Words (CUP, 2006) and co-editor with K. M. Jaszczolt of the Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics (CUP, 2012).

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