In this interview, we talk to H. Walter Schmitz about pioneer of semiotics Victoria Lady Welby. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 18 Primary Sources Hayakawa, Samuel Ichiyé (1939), Language in Thought and Action,…Read more ›

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Podcast episode 18: Interview with H. Walter Schmitz on Victoria Lady Welby

In this episode, we take a step back to explore the earliest beginnings of functional linguistics as represented by the work of Philipp Wegener. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts References for Episode 17 Primary Sources Bréal, Michel (1866), ‘De…Read more ›

Podcast episode 17: Philipp Wegener and the beginnings of functionalism

In this episode, we talk to Chloé Laplantine about the life and work of French structuralist Emile Benveniste. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts References for Episode 16 Primary Sources Annuaire du Collège de France. 1937-1938. Paris: Ernest Leroux. Benveniste,…Read more ›

Podcast episode 16: Interview with Chloé Laplantine on Emile Benveniste

In this episode, we enter the age of classical structuralism by exploring the phonological research of Roman Jakobson and his colleague Nikolai Trubetzkoy undertaken within the Prague Linguistic Circle. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts References for Episode 15 Primary…Read more ›

Podcast episode 15: Roman Jakobson, Prague Circle structuralism and phonology

In this interview, we talk to Michael Ashby about the emergence and development of phonetics in the 19th and early 20th century. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts References for Episode 14 Primary Sources Brücke, Ernst Wilhelm von (1856), Grundzüge…Read more ›

Podcast episode 14: The emergence of phonetics in the 19th century

In this interview, we talk to John Joseph about Ferdinand de Saussure. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts References for Episode 13 Primary Sources Arnauld, Antoine and Claude Lancelot (1660), Grammaire générale et raisonnée contenant les fondemens de l’art de…Read more ›

Podcast episode 13: Interview with John Joseph on Saussure

In this episode, we look at Ferdinand de Saussure’s contributions to linguistics, which are widely considered to be foundational to the later movement of structuralism. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts References for Episode 12 Primary Sources Bloomfield, Leonard (1924),…Read more ›

Podcast episode 12: Language as a system – Ferdinand de Saussure

In this interview, we talk to Floris Solleveld about the character of linguistic research in the 19th century. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts References for Episode 11 Primary Sources Adelung, Johann Christoph and Johann Severin Vater (1806–1817), Mithridates, oder…Read more ›

Podcast episode 11: Interview with Floris Solleveld on disciplinary linguistics in the 19th century

In this episode, we examine some of the major critiques directed against the Neogrammarians and see what they tell us about the state of linguistics around the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century. We focus in particular on…Read more ›

Podcast episode 10: Neogrammarian critics – Hugo Schuchardt and Karl Vossler

In this episode, we introduce the Neogrammarians, the dominant school of linguistics in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts References for Episode 9 Primary Sources Brugman, Karl (1876a), ‘Nasalis sonans in der indogermanischen…Read more ›

Podcast episode 9: The Neogrammarians

In this episode, we look first at the critiques of Schleicher’s “physcial” and Steinthal’s “psychological” theory of language put forward by the American linguist William Dwight Whitney. We then turn to Whitney’s own conception of language as a “human institution”…Read more ›

Podcast episode 8: Language as an institution – William Dwight Whitney

In this interview, we talk to Dr Clara Stockigt about missionary grammars in Australia and their links to the academic linguistic scholarship of the time. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts References for Episode 7 Primary Sources Bleek, Wilhelm H.…Read more ›

Podcast episode 7: Interview with Clara Stockigt on missionary grammars in Australia

In this episode, we look first at August Schleicher’s proposal for a linguistic “morphology” and its intellectual background in nineteenth-century biology. We then compare Schleicher’s approach to the scheme of language classification developed by H. Steinthal within Völkerpsychologie, or “psychology…Read more ›

Podcast episode 6: Schleicher’s morphology and Steinthal’s Völkerpsychologie

In this episode, we look at the expansion of comparative-historical linguistics around the middle of the nineteenth century. We focus in particular on the figure of August Schleicher, the great consolidator of the field, and his “materialist” philosophy of science.…Read more ›

Podcast episode 5: Comparativism in the mid-19th century – August Schleicher and materialism

In this episode, we talk to Jürgen Trabant about Wilhelm von Humboldt. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts References for Episode 4 Primary sources Humboldt, Wilhelm von (1836), ‘Über die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues’, Über die Kawi-Sprache auf der Insel…Read more ›

Podcast episode 4: Interview with Jürgen Trabant on Wilhelm von Humboldt

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