Brigitte Nerlich
List of John Benjamins publications in which Brigitte Nerlich is involved.
Book series
ISSN 0165-716X
Titles
Language, Action and Context: The early history of pragmatics in Europe and America 1780–1930
Brigitte Nerlich and David D. Clarke
The roots of pragmatics reach back to Antiquity, especially to rhetoric as one of the three liberal arts. However, until the end of the 18th century proto-pragmatic insights tended to be consigned to the pragmatic, that is rhetoric, wastepaper basket and thus excluded from serious philosophical… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 80] 1996. xiv, 497 pp.
Semantic Theories in Europe, 1830–1930: From etymology to contextuality
Brigitte Nerlich
It is widely believed by historians of linguistics that the 19th-century was largely devoted to historical and comparative studies, with the main emphasis on the discovery of soundlaws. Syntax is typically portrayed as a mere sideline of these studies, while semantics is seldom even mentioned. If… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 59] 1992. xi, 359 pp.
2013 UK media representations of Carbon Capture and Storage: Actors, frames and metaphors Metaphor and the Social World 3:1, pp. 35–53 | Article
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a climate change mitigation technology which has had a rather chequered history in British policy making and in the British public sphere. This article deals with the neglected topic of representations of CCS in the British media and their possible impact on… read more
2012 Review of Geeraerts (2010): Theories of Lexical Semantics Journal of Historical Pragmatics 13:1, pp. 158–163 | Review
2010 Bird flu hype: The spread of a disease outbreak through the media and Internet discussion groups Journal of Language and Politics 9:3, pp. 393–408 | Article
Bird flu, otherwise known as avian influenza, has attracted widespread public and global attention. The H5N1 avian influenza virus was first documented as infecting humans in Hong Kong in 1997 and many of those infected died subsequently from the virus that had been transmitted from poultry to… read more
2009 Wilhelm von Humboldt Culture and Language Use, Senft, Gunter, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 173–184 | Article
2004 Review of Santangelo (2003): Sentimental education in Chinese history. An interdisciplinary textual research on Ming and Qing Sources. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 2, Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José (ed.), pp. 349–354 | Review
2003 The use of literally: Vice or virtue? Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 1, Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José (ed.), pp. 193–206 | Article
2002 Vivien Law – Some memories Historiographia Linguistica 29:1/2, pp. 15–16 | Miscellaneous
2001 Serial metonymy: A study of reference-based polysemisation Journal of Historical Pragmatics 2:2, pp. 245–272 | Article
Metonymy has been studied for at least two thousand years by rhetoricians, for two hundred years by historical semanticists, and for about ten years by cognitive linguists. However, they all have neglected one peculiar aspect of metonymy: its serial nature. Metonymic chains are either synchronic… read more
2000 Structuralism, contextualism, dialogism: Volo.Inov’s and Baxtin’s contributions to the debate about the ‘relativity’ of meaning Historiographia Linguistica 27:1, pp. 79–102 | Article
In the 1930s lexical semantics came under the influence of Saussurean structuralism and Gestalt psychology. The study of whole lexical fields and the structure of these fields replaced a historical semantics focusing on single words and the classification of the transitions between the meanings… read more
2000 Review of Fritz (1998): Historische Semantik Journal of Historical Pragmatics 1:1, pp. 151–160 | Review
1999 The pragmatic triangle: Gardiner, Bühler and Reichling on the word and the sentence History of Linguistics 1996: Volume 2: From Classical to Contemporary Linguistics, Cram, David, Andrew R. Linn and Elke Nowak (eds.), pp. 267–276 | Chapter
1999 11. Identity, Similarity, and Continuity: Saussure’s and Wittgenstein’s searh for linguistic units The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences: Studies on the transition from historical-comparative to structural linguistics in honour of E.F.K. Koerner, Embleton, Sheila, John E. Joseph and Hans-Josef Niederehe (eds.), pp. 151–168 | Article
1999 “Mummy, I like being a sandwich”: Metonymy in Language Acquisition Metonymy in Language and Thought, Panther, Klaus-Uwe and Günter Radden (eds.), pp. 361–384 | Article
1999 Wilhelm von Humboldt Handbook of Pragmatics: 1997 Installment, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
1997 Polysemy: Patterns of meaning and patterns in history Historiographia Linguistica 24:3, pp. 349–385 | Article
40 years ago Stephen Ullmann wrote that polysemy was the pivot of semantics. He was referring then to traditional synchronic and diachronic semantics. Nowadays, some 40 years later, polysemy has again become a central topic in cognitive semantics. This article traces the history of this important… read more
1995 Language and Action: German Approaches to Pragmatics in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries History of Linguistics 1993: Papers from the Sixth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS VI), Washington DC, 9–14 August 1993, Jankowsky, Kurt R. (ed.), pp. 299–312 | Article
1995 The 1930s – at the birth of a Pragmatic Conception of Language Historiographia Linguistica 22:3, pp. 311–334 | Article
The 1930s were a time of immense cultural and scientific activity. It is well known that this was the time when structuralism made its appearance on the linguistic scene. It is generally less well known that this was also a time when a great number of books and articles dealing with ‘pragmatic’… read more
1991 The Place of G. F. Stout’s “Thought and Language” (1891) in the History of English Semantics Historiographia Linguistica 18:2/3, pp. 335–347 | Article
This article is intended to fill a gap in the history of semantics and the history of the psychology of language in England at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. The work of the psychologist and philosopher George Frederick Stout (1860–1944) is analysed, focusing on an article on ‘thought… read more
1990 Thought and Language: The paradoxical relationship between linguistics and psychology History and Historiography of Linguistics: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS IV), Trier, 24–28 August 1987, Niederehe, Hans-Josef and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 775–786 | Chapter
Fire, wind, and lies: Mapping the metaphorical landscape of the January 2025 Southern California wildfires Metaphor and the Social World: Online-First Articles | Article
In January 2025, devastating wildfires affected Southern California. The timing and iconic nature of these wildfires, which destroyed the properties of high-profile celebrities, created a unique opportunity to examine how metaphors function at the intersection of climate communication, celebrity… read more