W. Terrence Gordon

List of John Benjamins publications in which W. Terrence Gordon is involved.

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A History of Semantics

W. Terrence Gordon

In this monograph the author outlines, for the first time in the history of linguistics, the development of the study of 'meaning', from the pioneering work of Christian Karl Reisig (1792-1829), Friedrich Haase (1808-1867), Ferdinand Heerdegen (1845-1930), Arsène Darmesteter (1846-88) and Michel… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 30] 1982. viii, 284 pp.

Gordon, W. Terrence 2018 Language and Meaning in the Age of Modernism: C. K. Ogden and his Contemporaries. By James McElvenny. Historiographia Linguistica 45:1/2, pp. 255–262 | Review

Gordon, W. Terrence 2011 Saussure: A Guide for the Perplexed. By Paul Bouissac Historiographia Linguistica 38:1/2, pp. 221–226 | Review

Gordon, W. Terrence 1999 Re-reading Saussure: The dynamics of signs in social life. By Paul J. Thibault Historiographia Linguistica 26:1/2, pp. 209–214 | Review

Gordon, W. Terrence and Henry G. Schogt 1999 10. Ferdinand de Saussure: The anagrams and the Cours 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. 139–150 | Article

Gordon, W. Terrence 1994 Bridging Saussurean structuralism and British linguistic thought Historiographia Linguistica 21:1/2, pp. 123–136 | Article

British linguistic thought in the first half of the 20th century reacted against the Saussurean oppositions signifiant/signifié, langue/parole, and signification/valeur. Ogden & Richards (1923) reject them on epistemological, orthological, and terminological grounds. For Bronislaw Malinowski… read more

Gordon, W. Terrence 1992 Saussure: Signs, Systems, and Arbitrariness. By David Holdcroft Historiographia Linguistica 19:2/3, pp. 369–374 | Review

Gordon, W. Terrence 1992 Semantic Theories in Europe, 1830–1930: From Etymology to Contextuality. By Brigitte Nerlich Historiographia Linguistica 19:2/3, pp. 387–392 | Review

Gordon, W. Terrence 1990 Significs and C.K. Ogden: The Influence of Lady Welby Essays on Significs: Papers presented on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Victoria Lady Welby (1837–1912), Schmitz, H. Walter (ed.), pp. 179–196 | Article

Gordon, W. Terrence 1990 C. K. Ogden, Edward Sapir, Leonard Bloomfield, and the Geometry of Semantics 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. 821–832 | Chapter

Gordon, W. Terrence 1989 Language philosophy and linguistics in inter-bellum Britain Historiographia Linguistica 16:3, pp. 361–377 | Review article

Gordon, W. Terrence 1986 Translating Word-Play: French-English, English-French Babel 32:3, pp. 146–150 | Article