Chapter 4. Ethics and language in (and around) Philipp Wegener
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Maria Paola Tenchini
Abstract
In the logical-psychological-linguistic contributions of the German area between the nineteenth and the twentieth century, Philipp Wegener is the scholar who stresses the role of ethics as the precondition for the acquisition and use of language. His considerations are embedded in a theoretical framework that focuses on the concrete acts of speech in situational context, as well as on the active interaction between speaker and hearer for the construction of meaning. Within this dialogical approach, sympathy should be considered as the “most fundamental prerequisite” for understanding speech (Wegener 1885: 68). Wegener’s view never gained unanimous coeval fame either in linguistics or in the psychology of language; nonetheless he was appreciated later by scholars of the caliber of Karl Bühler and Alan Gardiner. Our paper investigates the attention Wegener pays to the connection between language, speech, and ethics and considers how this concept may have paved the way for a social notion of language.
Abstract
In the logical-psychological-linguistic contributions of the German area between the nineteenth and the twentieth century, Philipp Wegener is the scholar who stresses the role of ethics as the precondition for the acquisition and use of language. His considerations are embedded in a theoretical framework that focuses on the concrete acts of speech in situational context, as well as on the active interaction between speaker and hearer for the construction of meaning. Within this dialogical approach, sympathy should be considered as the “most fundamental prerequisite” for understanding speech (Wegener 1885: 68). Wegener’s view never gained unanimous coeval fame either in linguistics or in the psychology of language; nonetheless he was appreciated later by scholars of the caliber of Karl Bühler and Alan Gardiner. Our paper investigates the attention Wegener pays to the connection between language, speech, and ethics and considers how this concept may have paved the way for a social notion of language.
Chapters in this book
- 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language Policy 10. 2014 i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword & acknowledgments 1
- Editors’ introduction 3
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Part 1. General and particular issues in the history of linguistics
- Chapter 1. Can linguistics and historiography of linguistics profit from each other? 14
- Chapter 2. Type or descent? 31
- Chapter 3. Le futur antérieur des linguistes (fin 19 e – début 20 e siècle) 47
- Chapter 4. Ethics and language in (and around) Philipp Wegener 60
- Chapter 5. Walter Benjamin’s idea of language 77
- Chapter 6. Eléments pour une histoire de l’interprétation 88
- Chapter 7. “Computational linguistics” as the horizon of projection of early machine translation 102
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Part 2. Antiquity
- Chapter 8. Declension and description 116
- Chapter 9. Constituent-order in Sanskrit Bahuvrīhi compounds 129
- Chapter 10. The internal order of Sanskrit compounds 145
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Part 3. Sixteenth to twentieth century works
- Chapter 11. How far are the horizons of descriptive linguistics? 160
- Chapter 12. The relevance of B. Delbrück’s work on Indo-European syntax (a century after his death) 179
- Chapter 13. Three documents bearing on the foundation of the Linguistic Society of America in the age of scientific racism 198
- Chapter 14. Archival resources for the study of the historiography of American linguistics 211
- Chapter 15. Courses in general linguistics by Roman Jakobson at the École Libre des Hautes Études 220
- Chapter 16. Contribution de Agostino Gemelli (1878–1959) à l’analyse des variations phoniques du langage 238
- Chapter 17. The structuralist quest for general meanings 248
- 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language Policy 10. 2014 279
- 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language Policy 10. 2014 283
Chapters in this book
- 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language Policy 10. 2014 i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword & acknowledgments 1
- Editors’ introduction 3
-
Part 1. General and particular issues in the history of linguistics
- Chapter 1. Can linguistics and historiography of linguistics profit from each other? 14
- Chapter 2. Type or descent? 31
- Chapter 3. Le futur antérieur des linguistes (fin 19 e – début 20 e siècle) 47
- Chapter 4. Ethics and language in (and around) Philipp Wegener 60
- Chapter 5. Walter Benjamin’s idea of language 77
- Chapter 6. Eléments pour une histoire de l’interprétation 88
- Chapter 7. “Computational linguistics” as the horizon of projection of early machine translation 102
-
Part 2. Antiquity
- Chapter 8. Declension and description 116
- Chapter 9. Constituent-order in Sanskrit Bahuvrīhi compounds 129
- Chapter 10. The internal order of Sanskrit compounds 145
-
Part 3. Sixteenth to twentieth century works
- Chapter 11. How far are the horizons of descriptive linguistics? 160
- Chapter 12. The relevance of B. Delbrück’s work on Indo-European syntax (a century after his death) 179
- Chapter 13. Three documents bearing on the foundation of the Linguistic Society of America in the age of scientific racism 198
- Chapter 14. Archival resources for the study of the historiography of American linguistics 211
- Chapter 15. Courses in general linguistics by Roman Jakobson at the École Libre des Hautes Études 220
- Chapter 16. Contribution de Agostino Gemelli (1878–1959) à l’analyse des variations phoniques du langage 238
- Chapter 17. The structuralist quest for general meanings 248
- 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language Policy 10. 2014 279
- 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language Policy 10. 2014 283
