Eugenio Coseriu : past, present and future / edited by Klaas Willems, Cristinel Munteanu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Willems, Klaas, editor.

Munteanu, Cristinel, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistics.

Coseriu, Eugenio.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (406 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2021]

Summary:

The volume is published on the occasion of the birth centennial of Eugenio Coseriu (1921–2002). It is the first collective volume to appear in English in which various scholars present a variety of perspectives on Coseriu’s scholarly work and discuss its continuing relevance for the language sciences. Coseriu’s international reputation has suffered from his commitment to publish in languages such as Spanish, German, French, Italian, Romanian and Portuguese, to the detriment of English. As a consequence, his work is less well-known outside Romance and German linguistics. The volume aims to raise the general awareness of Coseriu’s work among linguists around the world, in accordance with Coseriu’s own adage that it takes a constructive mindset (acknowledging "accomplishments and limitations") to do justice to all scholarly work in the humanities. The articles are organized into three major thematic clusters: 1) philosophy of language, 2) history of the language sciences and 3) theory and practice of "Integral Linguistics". The volume is essential reading for anyone working in these fields and for those seeking to gain deeper understanding of Coseriu’s goal to develop a unitary approach to language which takes as its point of departure the "activity of speaking".

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Contributors

Introduction

Part I: Philosophy of language

The essence of language: on Coseriu's philosophy of language

Eugenio Coseriu's approach to language and linguistics: building a 'philosophically sustainable' linguistics

Part II: History of the language sciences

Coseriu as a historiographer of linguistics in relation to his linguistic ideas

Coseriu's Hjelmslev

Coseriu and glossematics: an uncompleted dialogue

Part III: Theory and practice of Integral Linguistics

Integral Linguistics as a cultural science

Considerations on the subtle art of integrating linguistics (and/or semiotics)

Eugenio Coseriu and the primacy of history

At the roots of linguistic change: the historicity of language

Coseriu's journey to the realm of linguistic change

Eugenio Coseriu and pragmatics

Eugenio Coseriu on immediacy, distance and discourse traditions

System, norm and meaning

Coseriu, significative semantics and a new system of semantic roles

Coseriu's approach to word formation as an illustration of his theory of meaning

The categories of the Romance verb

The crux of metaphor: between Cognitive and Integral Linguistics

Language as activity, linguistic knowledge and cognitive psychology: a Coserian perspective

Bibliography

Author Index

Subject Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-071239-3

OCLC:

1266227824