Saussure and Sechehaye : myth and genius : a study in the history of linguistics and the foundations of language / by Pieter A.M. Seuren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seuren, Pieter A. M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Saussure, Ferdinand de, 1857-1913.

Saussure, Ferdinand de.

Sechehaye, Albert, 1870-1946.

Sechehaye, Albert.

Linguistics--History.

Linguistics.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 267 pages : billustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Summary:

"In this book, Pieter Seuren argues that Ferdinand de Saussure has been grossly overestimated over the past century, while his junior colleague Albert Sechehaye has been undeservedly ignored. Saussure was anything but the great innovator he is generally believed to be. Sechehaye was a genius providing many trenchant analyses and anticipating many modern insights. The lives and works of both men are discussed in detail and they are placed in the cultural, intellectual and social environment of their day. Much attention is paid to the theoretical issues involved, in particular to the notion and history of structuralism, to the great subject-predicate debate that dominated linguistic theory at the time, and to questions of methodology in the theory of language"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Who was Ferdinand de Saussure?

The cours: a critical look

Charles-Albert Sechehaye

Sechehaye and the great subject-predicate debate

Structuralism, rationalism and romanticism in psychology and linguistics.

Notes:

"This book is a further development of my article 'Saussure and his intellectual environment', published in the journal History of European Ideas (Seuren 2016) as part of a special issue in honour of Hans Aarsleff, who turned 90 in 2015."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Seuren, Pieter A. M., author. Saussure and Sechehaye

ISBN:

9789004378148

9004378146

OCLC:

1052904830