The history of language learning and teaching (HoLLT) in the history of linguistics
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Nicola McLelland
Abstract
Fifty years after two of the first overviews of the history of language teaching (Titone 1968, Kelly 1969), this paper highlights the value of the history of language learning and teaching (HoLLT) to the history of linguistics, from three perspectives: (1) theoretical and descriptive insights; (2) insights into practice (e.g. changing conceptions and articulations of what it means to learn a language, reflecting changing language ideologies); and (3) making space in the history of linguistics for “history from below” – in particular as learning and teaching of languages, offered a space for females’ participation in and visibility in linguistic matters.
Abstract
Fifty years after two of the first overviews of the history of language teaching (Titone 1968, Kelly 1969), this paper highlights the value of the history of language learning and teaching (HoLLT) to the history of linguistics, from three perspectives: (1) theoretical and descriptive insights; (2) insights into practice (e.g. changing conceptions and articulations of what it means to learn a language, reflecting changing language ideologies); and (3) making space in the history of linguistics for “history from below” – in particular as learning and teaching of languages, offered a space for females’ participation in and visibility in linguistic matters.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- Foreword and acknowledgements ix
- Editors’ introduction xiii
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Part I. Notions
- Un essai d’histoire comparée de la grammatisation des langues romanes 3
- Linguistic description and language philosophy in Wilhelm von Humboldt’s North American grammars 21
- La phrase grammaticale moderne 35
- Wegener’s Wortsatz and the notion of sentence 49
- Why is it so hard to establish gestalt ideas within linguistics? 65
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Part II. Representations of language and reception of theories
- Klaproth, Balbi and the language atlas 81
- Nation and race in the twentieth century scientific discourse on Viking Age runestones 101
- L’homme dans la langue 113
- Saussure/Mallarmé 129
- Introducing and translating Otto Jespersen in China in the past 100 years 143
- On the reception and revivification of Cartesian linguistics 157
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Part III. Pedagogy, linguistic policy and codification
- Greek grammatical learning papyri 173
- The history of language learning and teaching (HoLLT) in the history of linguistics 189
- Sprache der Nähe vs. Sprache der Distanz and the nineteenth century codification of Modern Czech 205
- Linguists and lawyers 221
- Name index 237
- Subject index 241
- Name index 237
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- Foreword and acknowledgements ix
- Editors’ introduction xiii
-
Part I. Notions
- Un essai d’histoire comparée de la grammatisation des langues romanes 3
- Linguistic description and language philosophy in Wilhelm von Humboldt’s North American grammars 21
- La phrase grammaticale moderne 35
- Wegener’s Wortsatz and the notion of sentence 49
- Why is it so hard to establish gestalt ideas within linguistics? 65
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Part II. Representations of language and reception of theories
- Klaproth, Balbi and the language atlas 81
- Nation and race in the twentieth century scientific discourse on Viking Age runestones 101
- L’homme dans la langue 113
- Saussure/Mallarmé 129
- Introducing and translating Otto Jespersen in China in the past 100 years 143
- On the reception and revivification of Cartesian linguistics 157
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Part III. Pedagogy, linguistic policy and codification
- Greek grammatical learning papyri 173
- The history of language learning and teaching (HoLLT) in the history of linguistics 189
- Sprache der Nähe vs. Sprache der Distanz and the nineteenth century codification of Modern Czech 205
- Linguists and lawyers 221
- Name index 237
- Subject index 241
- Name index 237