Stefano Gensini

List of John Benjamins publications in which Stefano Gensini is involved.

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Gensini, Stefano 2017 Itinerari ottocenteschi. Tra linguistica storico-comparativa e linguistica generale . By Maria Patrizia Bologna Historiographia Linguistica 44:1, pp. 177–183 | Review

Gensini, Stefano 2014 Avi Lifschitz, Language and Enlightenment: The Berlin debates of the eighteenth century Historiographia Linguistica 41:1, pp. 158–163 | Review

Gensini, Stefano 2011 Elements of a philosophy of language in Claudio Tolomei’s Il Cesano de la lingua Toscana History of Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the eleventh International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XI), 28 August - 2 September 2008, Potsdam, Haßler, Gerda (ed.), pp. 129–134 | Article

This paper aims at a re-consideration of Claudio Tolomei’s Il Cesano de la lingua Toscana (1525, with later revisions) from a philosophical-linguistic point of view. The author focuses on the way Tolomei described the realm of language as conditioned by social-spatial and time coordinates.… read more

Gensini, Stefano 2006 Vico’s New Science of Ancient Signs: A Study of Sematology. By Jürgen Trabant New Approaches to the Study of Later Modern English, pp. 216–221 | Review

Gensini, Stefano 1996 The Linguistic Naturalism of Theophrastus Redivivus (1659?) Historiographia Linguistica 23:3, pp. 301–320 | Article

This paper deals with the linguistic subjects in Theophrastus redivivus (1659?), an anonymous masterpiece of French Free-thinkers movement. Attention is paid, firstly, to the criticism of the concept of god, whose existence is denied mainly on linguistic grounds; secondly, to the anti-Cartesian… read more

Gensini, Stefano 1995 Criticisms of the Arbitrariness of Language in Leibniz and Vico and the ‘Natural’ Philosophy of Language Iconicity in Language, Simone, Raffaele (ed.), pp. 3–18 | Article

Gensini, Stefano 1995 The ‘Imperfect’ Language: Notes on Alessandro Manzoni's linguistic ideas Historical Roots of Linguistic Theories, Formigari, Lia and Daniele Gambarara (eds.), pp. 151–170 | Article

Gensini, Stefano 1990 Vulgaris opinio babelica: Sui fondamenti storico-teorici della pluralità delle lingue nel pensiero di Leibniz Leibniz, Humboldt, and the Origins of Comparativism: Proceedings of the international conference, Rome, 25–28 September 1986, De Mauro, Tullio † and Lia Formigari (eds.), pp. 61–84 | Article