The linguist and philologist Jacob Grimm (1785–1863) is best remembered as co-editor, with his brother Wilhelm, of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, though their great Deutsches Wörterbuch ...
Continue Reading →Rasmus Kristian Rask (born Rasmus Christian Nielsen Rasch, 1787–1832) was a Danish linguist and philologist. He wrote several grammars and worked on comparative phonology ...
Continue Reading →During the third year of his famous seminar, Jacques Lacan gives a concise definition of psychoanalysis: ‘Psychoanalysis should be the science of language ...
Continue Reading →Although elected to the prestigious French Academy in 1990, Michel Serres has long been considered a maverick–a provocative thinker whose prolific writings on ...
Continue Reading →Course in General Linguistics (French: Cours de linguistique générale) is a book compiled by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye from notes on lectures ...
Continue Reading →Madness, sexuality, power, knowledge—are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works of astonishing brilliance, historian Michel ...
Continue Reading →Described by the New York Times as “arguably the most important intellectual alive,” Noam Chomsky is known throughout the world for his highly ...
Continue Reading →This is the third edition of Chomsky’s outstanding collection of essays on language and mind, first published in 2006. The first six chapters, ...
Continue Reading →Beginning in the mid-fifties and emanating largely form MIT, an approach was developed to linguistic theory and to the study of the structure ...
Continue Reading →The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Latin for Logical Philosophical Treatise or Treatise on Logic and Philosophy) is the only book-length philosophical work by the Austrian philosopher ...
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