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Last Papers in Linguistic Historiography
E.F.K. Koerner †
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 128] 2020
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Chapter 1
The historiography of linguistics past, present, future

Article outline
  • 1.Prefatory remarks
  • 2.Motivations for writing the history of linguistics
    • 2.1Summing-up histories of linguistics
    • 2.2Celebratory or propagandistic histories of linguistics
    • 2.3Detached histories of linguistics (Problemgeschichte)
    • 2.4Historiography of linguistics
  • 3.The study of the history of linguistics: Early beginnings to the present
    • 3.1Early phases of history-writing in linguistics
    • 3.2Mid-20th-century efforts in history of linguistics
    • 3.3Late 20th-century work in the history of linguistics
  • 4.Approaches to linguistic historiography
    • 4.1History of linguistics and intellectual history
    • 4.2History of linguistics and the philosophy of history
    • 4.3Linguistic historiography and history & philosophy of science
    • 4.4Linguistic historiography and sociology of science
    • 4.5Toward a synthesis of differing approaches to linguistic history-writing
  • 5.The consolidation of linguistic historiography
  • 6.Remaining challenges in linguistic historiography
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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