Positivism and neo-positivism in linguistics and language philosophy

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Part I. From the Latin grammarians to the idéologues
5. Some problems in transferring the Latin model to the first French grammars: Verbal voice, impersonal verbs and the -rais form 3
6. Un exemple du transfert du modèle latin aux premières grammaires du français: l'analyse des temps du passé 17
7. Linguistic ideas and the discourse about languages in early Brazilian history 27
8. Grammaire générale et grammaire particulière: Les Méthodes de Claude Irson 41
9. Texts of reference and serial texts in the constitution of a notional paradigm: The example of the French idéologues 63
10. Part II. Linguistics in the 19th and 20th centuries
11. The Brazilian hyperlanguage mark in the traditional grammar of the 19th Century 75
12. Revista Ilustrada: Un document sur le langage des Noirs à la fin du XIXe siècle 87
13. The "arrested evolution": Notion, theories, myth? 93
14. On the defense of Von Kempelen as the predecessor of experimental phonetics and speech synthesis research 101
15. Positivism and neo-positivism in linguistics and language philosophy 107
16. From universal languages to intermediary languages in Machine Translation: The work of the Cambridge Language Research Unit (1955–1970) 123
17. The Presence of Absence in Saussure's Linguistic Theory 133
18. La création des cours de lettres au Brésil et les premières orientations de la recherche linguistique universitaire 141
19. The Portuguese language in the institutionalization of linguistics 149
20. Humor and language acquisition: Anecdotal data and their route in the history of language acquisition studies 157
21. Part III. Plenary papers
22. Reflexions sur l'experience grecque du langage 171
23. Johann Jacob Reiske (1716-1774): Leading force in the establishment of oriental and classical Scholarship in Germany 183
24. The context and sense of Humboldt's statement that language 'ist kein werk (ergon), sondern eine tätigkeit (energeia)' 197
25. On the Notion of Structure and Structuralism in Brazil 207
26. Les avancées de notre discipline 223
27. Index of names 235
28. Index rerum 239