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Mackert, Michael. 1993. Interpretation, authorial intention, and representation: Reflections on the historiography of linguistics. Language Sciences 15 (1) : 39–52.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

hermeneutics | history | interpretation | linguistics | semiotics

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0388-0001

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study evaluates positivist and pluralist conceptions of linguistic historiography in the light of recent theoretical developments in history, linguistics, semiotics, and hermeneutics. They support a pluralist conception as the positivist one ignores the semiotic, dialogic, and historical dimensions of interpretation.