Wilhelm von Humboldt's Conception of Linguistic Relativity
Title | Wilhelm von Humboldt's Conception of Linguistic Relativity PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Langham Brown |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | 132 |
Release | 2014-01-02 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110877635 |
The Relativity Principle in Language
Title | The Relativity Principle in Language PDF eBook |
Author | Kathrin Ehlen |
Publisher | GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | 22 |
Release | 2011-06-22 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 3640942434 |
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, University of Paderborn (Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Metaphor and Metonymy, language: English, abstract: For hundreds of years scholars have been pondering on the interconnection of language and thought with in some points corresponding and in some points differing results. Two important protagonists in this discussion were Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) and Leo Weisgerber (1899-1985), whose positions to this question I am trying to set out in this paper. As the theme is very complex, I shall at least attempt to point out some aspects, which seem especially important to me. All the authors I consulted agree that Humboldt’s theory cannot be comprehended without considering the philosophical background. Not being a student of philosophy, conceiving this part of the paper was very difficult for me. I tried to do my best by picking out those aspects of his philosophical ideas which I thought indispensable for the understanding of his doctrines.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt's Philosophy of Language, Its Sources and Influence
Title | Wilhelm Von Humboldt's Philosophy of Language, Its Sources and Influence PDF eBook |
Author | Elsina Stubbs |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 372 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
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This study argues that Humboldt's philosophy of language should be seen as a coherent system in which he envisages the interaction of thought, perception and imagination. It underlines the significance of Humboldt's approach to his philosophical sources and his clarification and development of ideas embodied in those sources. The discussion brings into focus the thought of such eminent philosophers as Leibniz, Condillac, Herder, and Kant, who exercised a profound influence on Humboldt's thought.
The Relativity Principle in Language
Title | The Relativity Principle in Language PDF eBook |
Author | Kathrin Ehlen |
Publisher | GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | 29 |
Release | 2011-06 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 3640942345 |
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, University of Paderborn (Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Metaphor and Metonymy, language: English, abstract: For hundreds of years scholars have been pondering on the interconnection of language and thought with in some points corresponding and in some points differing results. Two important protagonists in this discussion were Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) and Leo Weisgerber (1899-1985), whose positions to this question I am trying to set out in this paper. As the theme is very complex, I shall at least attempt to point out some aspects, which seem especially important to me. All the authors I consulted agree that Humboldt's theory cannot be comprehended without considering the philosophical background. Not being a student of philosophy, conceiving this part of the paper was very difficult for me. I tried to do my best by picking out those aspects of his philosophical ideas which I thought indispensable for the understanding of his doctrines.
The Linguistic Relativity Principle and Humboldtian Ethnolinguistics
Title | The Linguistic Relativity Principle and Humboldtian Ethnolinguistics PDF eBook |
Author | Robert L. Miller |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 128 |
Release | 2015-06-03 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110823160 |
The Philosophical Foundations of Humboldt's Linguistic Doctrines
Title | The Philosophical Foundations of Humboldt's Linguistic Doctrines PDF eBook |
Author | Martin L. Manchester |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | 230 |
Release | 1985-01-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9027279519 |
Wilhelm von Humboldt’s writings on language are a mixture of philosophical theorizing about mind and language on the one hand, and on the other hand, specialized studies of the most detailed sort of both the classical languages and languages which only in Humboldt’s day were becoming known to European scholars, such as Sanskrit, Chinese, and native north and south American languages. This book endeavors to show that Humboldt’s work on language is a coherent system of thought; to recapture and expose the systematic structure of assumption, hypothesis, argument and conclusion; and to assign many of the specific themes in his writing to a place within this structure.
Humboldt: 'On Language'
Title | Humboldt: 'On Language' PDF eBook |
Author | Wilhelm von Humboldt |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 344 |
Release | 1999-12-09 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780521667722 |
Wilhelm von Humboldt's classic study of human language was first published in 1836, as a general introduction to his three-volume treatise on the Kawi language of Java. It is the final statement of his lifelong study of the nature of language, exploring its universal structures and its relation to mind and culture. Empirically wide-ranging - Humboldt goes far beyond the Indo-European family of languages - it remains one of the most interesting and important attempts to draw philosophical conclusions from comparative linguistics. This 1999 volume presents a translation by Peter Heath, together with an introduction by Michael Losonsky that places Humboldt's work in its historical context and discusses its relevance to contemporary work in philosophy, linguistics, cognitive science, and psychology.