A History of Modern Linguistics

James McElvenny

A History of Modern Linguistics
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
8 January 2024
Pages
208
ISBN
9781474470025

A History of Modern Linguistics

James McElvenny

In this book, McElvenny offers a concise history of modern linguistics from its emergence in the early nineteenth century up to the end of World War II. Written as a collective biography of the field, it concentrates on the interaction between the leading figures of linguistics, their controversies, and the role of the social and political context in shaping their ideas and methods. While A History of Modern Linguistics focuses on disciplinary linguistics, the boundaries of the account are porous: developments in neighbouring fields - in particular, philosophy, psychology and anthropology - are brought into the discussion where they have contributed to linguistic research.

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