Christiane Schlaps

List of John Benjamins publications in which Christiane Schlaps is involved.

Articles

Schlaps, Christiane 2005 Poetik der Etymologie: Texturen sprachlichen Wissens in der Romantik. Von Stefan Willer Historiographia Linguistica 32:1/2, pp. 207–217 | Review

Schlaps, Christiane 2004 The ‘Genius of language’: Transformations of a concept in the History of linguistics Linguistica Berolinensia, Fögen, Thorsten and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 367–388 | Article

The so-called ‘genius of language’ may be regarded as one of the most influential, and versatile, metalinguistic metaphors used to describe vernacular languages from the 17th century onwards. Over the centuries, philosophers, grammarians, trans­lators and language critics etc. wrote of the… read more