Table of contents
1.0 Introduction1
1.1 The Importance of the History of Semantics for the History of Linguistics1
1.2 Review of Literature4
1.3 The Purpose and Scope of This Book8
1.4 General Overview12
Part I
2.0 The Development of Semasiology in Germany29
2.1 Introduction and Overview29
2.2 Reisig – A Broad Programme for Semasiology33
2.3 Tobler's Etymo-Logical Semasiology41
2.4 Haase – Semasiology between History and Philosophy43
2.5 Heerdegen – Logico-Historical Semasiology at Its Best45
2.6 Hey – Towards a Psychological Semasiology49
2.7 The Psychological Tradition in Semasiology – Völkerpsychologie Mark 153
2.8 The Schoolmasters' Interlude – Thomas and Schmidt68
2.9 The Psychological Tradition in Semasiology – Völkerpsychologie Mark 273
2.10 Official Semantics and Semantic Innovators80
2.11 Meaning and Emotion103
2.12 Stern's Theory of Meaning and Change of Meaning: The Apotheosis of the Semasiological Tradition118
Part II
3.0 The Development of la Sémantique in France125
3.1 Introduction125
3.2 Ideology and Lexiology126
3.3 Littré – Semantics and Lexicography129
3.4 Bréal – First Steps towards Semantics as a Human Science131
3.5 Darmesteter – A First Programme for Semantics138
3.6 Back to Bréal and the Establishment of la sémantique141
3.7 Back to Darmesteter and a Biological-Rhetorical Model for Semantic Change142
3.8 Darmesteter – A Centre of Innovations and Controversies145
3.9 Bréal's Essai de sémantique156
3.10 French Psycho-Semantics165
3.11 French Socio-Semantics173
3.12 From Diachrony to Synchrony191
3.13 Conclusion204
Part III
4.0 The Development of Semantics in England – From Sematology to Significs and Beyond207
4.1 Introduction207
4.2 Smart's Sematology209
4.3 Garnett's Criticism of English Lexicography215
4.4 The New Philological Approach to Meaning216
4.5 Meaning, Action, and Mind224
4.6 Language, Thought, and Meaning236
4.7 British Contextualism258
Notes269
Abbreviations293
Bibliographies of Primary Sources295
Semasiology in Germany (1800-1950)297
La sémantique in France (1800-1950)316
Semantics in England (and the USA) (1800-1950)324
Semantics (1820-1950): Other Countries332
References (Secondary Sources)333
Index of Authors347
Index Rerum356
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