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oapen-20.500.12657-248932021-11-10T07:59:14Z Form and formalism in linguistics McElvenny, James Linguistics "Form" and "formalism" are a pair of highly productive and polysemous terms that occupy a central place in much linguistic scholarship. Diverse notions of "form" – embedded in biological, cognitive and aesthetic discourses – have been employed in accounts of language structure and relationship, while "formalism" harbours a family of senses referring to particular approaches to the study of language as well as representations of linguistic phenomena. This volume brings together a series of contributions from historians of science and philosophers of language that explore some of the key meanings and uses that these multifaceted terms and their derivatives have found in linguistics, and what these reveal about the mindset, temperament and daily practice of linguists, from the nineteenth century up to the present day. 2019-07-19 23:55 2020-03-10 03:00:38 2020-04-01T10:12:58Z 2020-04-01T10:12:58Z 2019-05-23 book 1005209 OCN: 1118521681 9783961101825 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24893 eng application/pdf n/a 1005209.pdf Language Science Press 10.5281/zenodo.2654375 104856 10.5281/zenodo.2654375 0bad921f-3055-43b9-a9f1-ea5b2d949173 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9783961101825 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 104856 Language Science Press 2018 - 2020 Knowledge Unlatched open access
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"Form" and "formalism" are a pair of highly productive and polysemous terms that occupy a central place in much linguistic scholarship. Diverse notions of "form" – embedded in biological, cognitive and aesthetic discourses – have been employed in accounts of language structure and relationship, while "formalism" harbours a family of senses referring to particular approaches to the study of language as well as representations of linguistic phenomena. This volume brings together a series of contributions from historians of science and philosophers of language that explore some of the key meanings and uses that these multifaceted terms and their derivatives have found in linguistics, and what these reveal about the mindset, temperament and daily practice of linguists, from the nineteenth century up to the present day.
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