History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences

Podcast episode 17: Philipp Wegener and the beginnings of functionalism


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In this episode, we take a step back to explore the earliest beginnings of functional linguistics as represented by the work of Philipp Wegener.

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References for Episode 17
Primary Sources

Bréal, Michel (1866), ‘De la forme et de la fonction des mots’, Revue des Cours Littéraires de la France et de l’étranger 5 (29 Dec), 65–71. BnF RetroNews
(English trans. in Bréal 1991.)

Bréal, Michel (1868), Les Idées Latentes du Langage, Paris: Hachette. Google Books
(English trans. in Bréal 1991.)

Bréal, Michel (1897), Essai de sémantique (science des significations), Paris: Hachette. archive.org
(Engl. trans.: 1900, Semantics: Studies in the science of meaning, trans. by Nina Cust, London: Heinemann. archive.org)

Bréal, Michel (1991), The Beginnings of Semantics: Essays, lectures and reviews, trans. by George Wolf, London: Duckworth.

Dilthey, Wilhelm (1922 [1883]), Einleitung in die Geisteswissenschaften. Versuch einer Grundlegung für das Studium der Gesellschaft und der Geschichte, vol. 1. Leipzig: Teubner. archive.org

Gabelentz, Georg von der (1869), ‘Ideen zu einer vergleichenden Syntax. Wort- und Satzstellung’, Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie und Sprachwissenschaft 6, 367–384. Google Books

Gabelentz, Georg von der (1871), ‘Weiteres zur vergleichenden Syntax. Wort- und Satzstellung’, Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie und Sprachwissenschaft 8, 129–165, 300–338. Google Books

Lazarus, M. (1884 [1856–1867]), Geist und Sprache: Eine psychologische Monographie, Berlin: Dümmler.

Paul, Hermann (1885), Review of Wegener (1885), Literarisches Centralblatt für Deutschland 36 (29 August), col. 1230. Google Books

Paul, Hermann (1920 [1880]), Prinzipien der Sprachgeschichte, Halle an der Saale: Niemeyer. archive.org
(English trans.: (1891), Principles of the history of language, trans. H. A. Strong, London: Longmans, Green and co. archive.org)

Steinthal, H. (1871), Abriss der Sprachwissenschaft, 1. Teil, Die Sprache im Allgemeinen. Einleitung in die Psychologie und Sprachwissenschaft. Berlin: Dümmler.

Wegener, Philipp (1885), Untersuchungen über die Grungfragen des Sprachlebens, Halle: Niemeyer. Google Books
(New edition 1991 with introduction by Clemens Knobloch, Amsterdam: Benjamins; [problematic] Engl. trans.: 1971, Speech and Reasons: Language disorder in mental disease. A translation of ‘The Life of Speech’ by Philipp Wegener, trans. by Wilfred D. Abse, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.)

Wegener, Philipp (1902), Review of Delbrück (1901) Grundfragen der Sprachforschung, mit Rücksicht auf W. Wundts Sprachpsychologie erörtert, Literarisches Centralblatt 12 (22 March), cols. 401–410.

Wundt, Wilhelm (1900–1920), Völkerpsychologie. Eine Untersuchung der Entwicklungsgesetze von Sprache, Mythos und Sitte, 10 vols., Leipzig: Engelmann.

Ziemer, Hermann (1886), Review of Wegener (1885), Berliner philologische Wochenschrift 6, 181–185.

Secondary Sources

Beiser, Frederick C. (2011), The German Historicist Tradition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. See in particular chap. 8.

Elffers-van Kettel, Els (1991), The Historiography of Grammatical Concepts: 19th and 20th-century changes in the subject-predicate conception and the problem of their historical reconstruction, Amsterdam: Rodopi.

Klautke, Egbert (2013), The Mind of the Nation: Völkerpsychologie in Germany, 1851–1955, New York: Berghahn. See in particular Chap. 1.

Knobloch, Clemens (1988), Geschichte der psychologischen Sprachauffassung in Deutschland von 1850 bis 1920, Tübingen: Niemeyer.

Knobloch, Clemens (1991), Introduction to 1991 edition of Wegener’s Untersuchungen, pp. xi–li, Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Nerlich, Brigitte (1990), Change in Language: Whitney, Bréal, and Wegener, London: Routledge.

Nerlich, Brigitte & David D. Clarke (1996), Language, Action and Context: The early history of pragmatics in Europe and America, 1780–1930, Amsterdam: Benjamins.

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