The volume focuses on the Latin tracts produced in Paris around 1270 by the Danes Martinus and Boethius de Dacia on what is known as "modistic grammar." The contours of this "medieval linguistics" ...become clear in the comparison with two further approaches to linguistic theory - four tracts by medieval Icelandic grammarians and Saussure's "Cours de linguistique générale" as a fundamental work in modern linguistics. The comparison then leads to a fundamental epistemological reflection on a possible typology of theoretical constructs in linguistics.
The volume focuses on the Latin tracts produced in Paris around 1270 by the Danes Martinus and Boethius de Dacia on what is known as "modistic grammar." The contours of this "medieval linguistics" ...become clear in the comparison with two further approaches to linguistic theory - four tracts by medieval Icelandic grammarians and Saussure´s "Cours de linguistique gènèrale" as a fundamental work in modern linguistics. The comparison then leads to a fundamental epistemological reflection on a possible typology of theoretical constructs in linguistics. Im Zentrum des Bandes stehen die um 1270 in Paris entstandenen lateinischen Traktate der Dänen Martinus und Boethius de Dacia zur sog. „modistischen Grammatik". Die Konturen dieser „mittelalterlichen Linguistik" werden deutlich in einer komparatistischen Gegenüberstellung mit zwei weiteren sprachtheoretischen Ansätzen: vier Traktaten mittelalterlicher isländischer Grammatiker und Ferdinand de Saussures „Cours de linguistique gènèrale" als einem Grundlagenwerk der modernen Linguistik. Dies mündet in eine grundlegende wissenschaftstheoretische Reflexion einer möglichen Typologie sprachwissenschaftlicher Theoriegebäude.
Many of the issues are still with us, from racism, an irreconcilable clash of cultures, to the claim that national security should override the rights of the individual; from the argument for ...historical and national specificity to the issue of the separation of Church and State.
People cannot naively adduce the writers on music in a given musical culture as straightforward testimony to musical practice. Ferdinand de Saussure's semiology approach, Charles Sanders Peirce's ...semiotic system and a third perspective are discussed in search of a theory of musicology.
Deconstruction is commonly associated with the philosophy of Derrida. But there are also non-philosophers who say they engage in deconstruction, for example architects, anthropologists and literary ...critics. This may lead some people to suppose that deconstruction is not concerned with specifically philosophical problems.
Philip Sidney's placement of characters and use of charactonymic practices help to define the actions and reactions of his characters. Sidney's narratology in "Arcadias" is analyzed in terms of ...Saussurian linguistics.
The fact that the representational aspect of any setting is modified and extended by its relational value does not imply that these signs can reflect nothing but the order inscribed in this ...particular discourse. The order of the discourse reflects an order outside that discourse, that is, interprets a particular society and its value. The discourse of Saussure's "The Wings of the Dove" is discussed.
