Maria Paola Tenchini

List of John Benjamins publications in which Maria Paola Tenchini is involved.

Title

History of Linguistics 2021: Selected papers from the 15th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS 15), Milan, 28 August – 1 September

Edited by Savina Raynaud, Maria Paola Tenchini and Enrica Galazzi

This volume comprises two invited talks and fifteen selected papers, chosen from over 200 submissions to the 15th International Conference on the History of Language Sciences (ICHoLS XV). Originally scheduled to be held in Milan in 2020, the conference was postponed and moved online due to the… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 133] 2024. vi, 284 pp.

Articles

Tenchini, Maria Paola and Serena Cattaruzza 2024 Chapter 4. Ethics and language in (and around) Philipp Wegener History of Linguistics 2021: Selected papers from the 15th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS 15), Milan, 28 August – 1 September, Raynaud, Savina, Maria Paola Tenchini and Enrica Galazzi (eds.), pp. 60–76 | Chapter

In the logical-psychological-linguistic contributions of the German area between the nineteenth and the twentieth century, Philipp Wegener is the scholar who stresses the role of ethics as the precondition for the acquisition and use of language. His considerations are embedded in a theoretical… read more

Tenchini, Maria Paola 2020 Wegener’s Wortsatz and the notion of sentence History of Linguistics 2017: Selected papers from the 14th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, (ICHoLS 14), Paris, 28 August – 1 September, Aussant, Émilie and Jean-Michel Fortis (eds.), pp. 49–64 | Chapter

This contribution aims to introduce Wegener’s defense of the notion of Wortsatz (word sentence) as a construction having a sentence status within the debate about the notion and the definition of sentence and its structure that developed in Germany during the second half of the nineteenth… read more

Tenchini, Maria Paola and Aldo Frigerio 2016 A multi-act perspective on slurs Pejoration, Finkbeiner, Rita, Jörg Meibauer and Heike Wiese (eds.), pp. 167–186 | Article

This paper proposes a semantic interpretation of slurs based on a multi-speech act theory. According to this perspective, when a speaker utters a sentence containing a slur, he or she performs two different speech acts, one of which, following Searle’s taxonomy, is an expressive one. Therefore,… read more