Sylvian Auroux

List of John Benjamins publications for which Sylvian Auroux plays a role.

Title

History of Linguistics 1999: Selected papers from the Eighth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, 14–19 September 1999, Fontenay-St.Cloud

Edited by Sylvian Auroux

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 99] 2003. xii, 397 pp.

Subjects History of linguistics

Articles (14) | Order by:

Auroux, Sylvian 2016 Le mythe de la langue mère / The myth of the mother tongue Constructing Languages: Norms, myths and emotions, Feliu, Francesc and Josep M. Nadal (eds.), pp. 181–198 | Article

Our linguistic history is full of myths. There is the myth of the national language, the one of a particular genius of each language. Insofar as national languages are artifacts built by centuries of language policy and by the careful equipping of the major culture’s languages through language… read more

Auroux, Sylvian 2013 The origin of language as seen by eighteenth-century philosophy New Perspectives on the Origins of Language, Lefebvre, Claire, Bernard Comrie and Henri Cohen (eds.), pp. 31–52 | Article

The eighteenth century constituted a “turning point” in our intellectual tradition: the question of the origin of languages became a question for “natural philosophy” or speculation, which in most cases avoided recourse to religion. This change had solid philosophical bases. By refusing to accept… read more

Auroux, Sylvian 2007 Les avancées de notre discipline History of Linguistics 2002: Selected papers from the Ninth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, 27-30 August 2002, São Paulo - Campinas, Guimarães, Eduardo and Diana Luz Pessoa de Barros (eds.), pp. 223–234 | Article

Auroux, Sylvian et Francine Mazière 2007 Une "Grammaire générale et raisonnée" en 1651 (1635?): Description et intérpretation d'une découverte empirique History of Linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHOLS X), 1–5 September 2005, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, Kibbee, Douglas A. (ed.), pp. 131–155 | Article

The discovery of the works of Jean Macé has pushed back the publication of the first known French “general and rational grammar” to 1651 for certain, and perhaps as early as about 1635. The simplest way of realizing the historian’s goal of accounting for certain “phenomena” is to organize them into… read more

Auroux, Sylvian 1995 The Semiological Sources of Semantics Historical Roots of Linguistic Theories, Formigari, Lia and Daniele Gambarara (eds.), pp. 221–232 | Article

Auroux, Sylvian 1990 Representation and the Place of Linguistic Change before Comparative Grammar Leibniz, Humboldt, and the Origins of Comparativism: Proceedings of the international conference, Rome, 25–28 September 1986, De Mauro, Tullio † and Lia Formigari (eds.), pp. 213–238 | Article

Auroux, Sylvian 1990 De la ‘technê“ au calcul: La question de la scientificité de la grammaire History and Historiography of Linguistics: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS IV), Trier, 24–28 August 1987, Niederehe, Hans-Josef and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 3–18 | Chapter

Auroux, Sylvian and Simone Delesalle 1990 French Semantics of the Late Nineteenth Century and Lady Welby's Significs Essays on Significs: Papers presented on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Victoria Lady Welby (1837–1912), Schmitz, H. Walter (ed.), pp. 105–132 | Article

Auroux, Sylvian 1987 The First Uses of the French Word ‘Linguistique’ (1812-1880) Papers in the History of Linguistics: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS III), Princeton, 19–23 August 1984, Aarsleff, Hans, L.G. Kelly and Hans-Josef Niederehe (eds.), pp. 447–460 | Article

Auroux, Sylvian 1986 Le sujet de la langue: la conception politique de la langue sous l'Ancien Régime et la Révolution Les Idéologues: Sémiotique, philosophie du langage et linguistique pendant la Révolution française, Busse, Winfried and Jürgen Trabant (eds.), pp. 259–278 | Article

Auroux, Sylvian 1983 La Première Société De Linguistique – Paris 1837? Historiographia Linguistica 10:3, pp. 241–265 | Article

Un article de J. Vendryes (1955), a popularisé le mythe, repris par Ε. Benveniste (1971) selon lequel la première société de linguistique, serait la Société de Linguistique de Paris, fondée en 1866. K. Koerner signalait en 1976 l’existence d’une société antérieure: la Société Internationale de… read more

Auroux, Sylvian 1980 Dumarsais et le lieu des tropes Progress in Linguistic Historiography: Papers from the International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, Ottawa, 28–31 August 1978, Koerner, E.F.K. † (ed.), pp. 199–210 | Article

Auroux, Sylvian 1979 La Querelle Des Lois Phonétiques Lingvisticæ Investigationes 3:1, pp. 1–27 | Article

Auroux, Sylvian 1977 Beauzée’s Grammaire générale: Theory and methodology. Par Barrie E(verdell) Bartlett Historiographia Linguistica 4:3, pp. 383–388 | Review