Considerations on the subtle art of integrating linguistics (and/or semiotics)
Sonesson, Göran LU
(2021)
p.151-164
- Abstract
- In 1981 appeared my first published paper, with the title, “A plea for integral linguistics”,which summarized the epistemological stance of my 1978 doctoral dissertation. In a lecture given in Bucharest, published only in 2004, Coseriu said that he very belatedly, in 1981, applied the term “integral linguistics” to his conception of linguistics. There is an enormous difference between a young scholar, as I was at the time, reaching for this label to declare the aims of his future research, and Coseriu picking it up to retrospectively describe his life-time work. Nevertheless, many linguists, among whom are Gipper, Lieb, Harris, and, more recently, Subbiondo, have used the same or similar terms, most of them, it would seem, being ignorant... (More)
- In 1981 appeared my first published paper, with the title, “A plea for integral linguistics”,which summarized the epistemological stance of my 1978 doctoral dissertation. In a lecture given in Bucharest, published only in 2004, Coseriu said that he very belatedly, in 1981, applied the term “integral linguistics” to his conception of linguistics. There is an enormous difference between a young scholar, as I was at the time, reaching for this label to declare the aims of his future research, and Coseriu picking it up to retrospectively describe his life-time work. Nevertheless, many linguists, among whom are Gipper, Lieb, Harris, and, more recently, Subbiondo, have used the same or similar terms, most of them, it would seem, being ignorant of the coinage made by the others. I suspect that we all have in common a rejection of the mainstream formalist reductionism inspired by the work of Chomsky in linguistics, which then spread to semiotics. As Coseriu made clear in his 1999 lecture in Cluj, he did not agree at all with Gipper’s and Harris’ ideas on what it means to integrate linguistics. Cognitive semiotics, as we have recently defined it, is in many ways, a prolongation of the notion of integral linguistics. But the jury is still out on what to integrate into linguistics (and/or semiotics), how to do it, and for which purpose. (Less)
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- Sonesson, Göran
LU
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- publishing date
- 2021
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- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
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- subject
- host publication
- Eugenio Coseriu : Past, Present and Future - Past, Present and Future
- editor
- Willems, Klaus and Munteanu, Cristinel
- pages
- 13 pages
- publisher
- De Gruyter
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- scopus:85133083567
- scopus:85133083567
- ISBN
- 9783110712339
- 9783110712391
- DOI
- 10.1515/9783110712391-009
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- English
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