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In:Historical Roots of Linguistic Theories
Edited by Lia Formigari and Daniele Gambarara
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 74] 1995
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Published online: 10 February 1995
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Table of contents

Forewordvii
Linguistic Historiography between Linguistics and Philosophy of Language1
On the Origins of Historical Linguistics: Materials and proposals for the Italian case11
The Legacy of Classical Rhetorics31
Mechanical Models and the Language Sciences in the 18th Century45
The Beginnings of Psycholinguistics: Natural and artificial signs in the treatment of language disorders85
The Theory of Interjections in Vico and Rousseau115
The French Sources of Leopardi's Linguistics129
Intellectual History, History of Ideas, History of Linguistic Ideas: The case of Condillac141
The ‘Imperfect’ Language: Notes on Alessandro Manzoni's linguistic ideas151
Old Debates and Current Problems: ‘Völkerpsychologie’ and the question of the individual and the social in language171
The Question of the Significatum: A problem raised and solved185
The Embarassment of Communication from Mandeville to Grice203
The Semiological Sources of Semantics221
The Language-User in Saussure (and after)233
The Analysis of French between the two World Wars (1914-1940)251
Forms of Imperfect Augustinianism269
The Convention of Geneva: History of linguistic ideas and history of communicative practices279
Index of Authors295
Index of Subjects and Terms305
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