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Publication details [#20939]
Vagle, Wenche. 1990. Rhetoric as a methodological basis for 17th century linguistics: A Danish case study. Historiographia Linguistica 17 (3) : 293–308. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Journal DOI
10.1075/hl
Annotation
The author studies the methodological influence that rhetoric has exerted on linguistics, by showing the rhetorical foundations in the work of Peder Syr (the first four parts of Nogle Betenkninger om det Cimbriske Sprog - `Some reflections on the Cimbric language' (1663).