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J E Joseph BA MA PhD FRSA |
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Professor of Applied
Linguistics Head of Linguistics &
English Language The University of
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Co-editor of Language
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Associate Editor of Historiographia Linguistica
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Contents
Contact Information and Office Hours
Courses Taught 2010-12
Posts Held
Current Research Projects
Publications 2001-present (and link to earlier
publications)
Papers Presented 2008-2012 and Upcoming
News
·
Saussure
(Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).
My book on the life and
work of Ferdinand de Saussure is now in press and will appear in spring 2012.
It has been made possible
by a Major Research Fellowship awarded by the Leverhulme Trust.
·
Newly appeared articles:
“‘The
Unilingual Republic of the World’: Reactions to the 1872 Proposal to
Make English the National Language of Japan”. Revista argentina de
historiografía lingüística 3/1 (2011), 53-65.
“Harris’s Saussure — Harris as Saussure: The
Translations of the Cours and the Third Course”, Language Sciences
33 (2011), 524-530.
“Théories et politiques de Noam
Chomsky”, Langages, n° 182 (juin 2011), 55-67.
·
Review
of What If Derrida Was Wrong about Saussure? by Russell Daylight, in Times Higher Education, 14 April 2011.
·
My analysis of the
Scottish government’s proposed question for the independence referendum
has appeared as “Reading between the Lines of Carefully Chosen
Words”, Scotland on Sunday, 29 January 2012, p. 15.
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Language and Politics:
Major Themes in English Studies, 4-volume set, ed. & with a new intro. by John E. Joseph.
London & New York: Routledge, 2010. Pp. xlviii + 1,550. ISBN: 978-0-415-45243-4.
VOLUME ONE — The
Language of Politics I (pp.
xxii + 272, individual volume ISBN 978-0-415-45244-1)
Introduction:
John E. Joseph. PART 1 Persuasion and propaganda — The theory of
political propaganda: Harold D. Lasswell; Propaganda analysis: Hadley Cantril;
Propaganda and demotic speech: George Orwell; Progressive propaganda critics
and the magic bullet myth: J. Michael Sproule; Language in the service of
propaganda: Noam Chomsky. PART 2 Language and political theory — Of
power: John Locke; Excerpt from The Limits of Jurisprudence Defined: Jeremy
Bentham; Review of The Language of Politics by Boulton: Raymond Williams;
Political theory & the language of politics: Nicholas Xenos; Locke on
language in (civil) society: Hannah Dawson. PART 3 Political uses of language
in the past — Excerpts from Remarks on the Use and Abuse of Some
Political Terms: Sir George Cornewall Lewis; Review of Use and Abuse of
Political Terms by Lewis: John Stuart Mill; American political cant: Lowry
Charles Wimberly; Excerpts from LTI (The language of the Third Reich): Victor
Klemperer; Excerpts from The tyranny of words: Stuart Chase.
VOLUME TWO — The
Language of Politics II (pp.
ix + 511, individual volume ISBN 978-0-415-45245-8)
PART 4
Political uses of language in recent decades — Antitotalitarian language
in Poland: some mechanisms of linguistic self-defense: Anna Wierzbicka; Images
of involvement and integrity: rhetorical style of a Japanese politician: Senko
K. Maynard; The making of the language of New Labour, Norman Fairclough;
Metaphors of dictatorship and democracy: change in the Russian political
lexicon and the transformation of Russian politics: Richard D. Anderson, Jr.;
New liberal speak: notes on the new planetary vulgate: Pierre Bourdieu &
Loïc Wacquant; Grammar - the first covert operation of war: David G. Butt,
Annabelle Lukin & Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen; Bush’s and
Gore’s language and gestures in the 2000 US presidential debates: a test
case for two models of metaphors: Alan Cienki. PART 5 Analysing political
language — Conservative words and radical sentences in the semantics of
international politics: Charles E. Osgood; Official discourse and state
apparatuses: F. Burton & P. Carlen; Rules and regulations: Roger Fowler
& Gunther Kress; Language and politics: indirectness in political
discourse: Samuel Gyasi Obeng; Being politically impolite: extending politeness
theory to adversarial political discourse: Sandra Harris; Discourse and
metadiscourse in parliamentary debates: Cornelia Ilie; The institutional provision for silence:
on the evasive nature of politicians’ answers to reporters’
questions: Kevin McKenzie; ‘I’ll tell you what the truth is’:
the interactional organization of confiding in political interviews: Anita
Fetzer & Marjut Johansson. PART 6 Ideology in political discourse —
Undemocratic discourse: a review of theory and research on political discourse:
John Gastil; The intersection of economic signals and mythic symbols: Cyril
Morong; Political discourse and ideology: Teun A. Van Dijk; Preempting the
future: rhetoric and ideology of the future in political discourse: Patricia L.
Dunmire.
VOLUME THREE — The
Politics of Language I (pp.
viii + 367, individual volume ISBN 978-0-415-45246-5)
PART 7
Marxist views on language — Excerpts from Marxism and the philosophy of
language: V. N. Voloshinov; Notes on language: Antonio Gramsci; Concerning
Marxism in linguistics: Joseph Stalin; Marr, Stalin and the theory of language:
M. Miller; The recent conflict in Soviet linguistics: Herbert Rubenstein;
Language, agency and hegemony: a Gramscian response to post-Marxism: Peter
Ives; Ideology and post-Marxism: Ernesto Laclau. PART 8 Performativity and
identity — Intermediate reflections: social action, purposive activity,
and communication: Jürgen Habermas; The politics of recognition: Charles
Taylor; Speech acts and unspeakable acts: Rae Langton; Sovereign performatives
in the contemporary scene of utterance: Judith Butler. PART 9 Language and the
structure of society — The order of discourse: Michel Foucault; The forms
of capital: Pierre Bourdieu; Elite discourse and the reproduction of racism:
Teun A. Van Dijk; Minority nationalism and immigrant integration: Will
Kymlicka.
VOLUME FOUR — The
Politics of Language II (pp.
ix + 400, individual volume ISBN 978-0-415-45247-2)
PART 10
Language choice and language policy — Language choice and cultural
imperialism: a Nigerian perspective: Joseph Bisong; Of EFL teachers,
conscience, and cowardice: Kanavillil Rajagopalan; On EFL teachers, awareness,
and agency: A. Suresh Canagarajah; Reply to Canagarajah: Kanavillil
Rajagopalan; Uncommon languages:
the challenges and possibilities of minority language rights: Stephen May;
African mother-tongue programmes and the politics of language: linguistic
citizenship versus linguistic human rights: Christopher Stroud; Liberal
neutrality and language policy: Alan Patten; ‘Global English’:
linguistic imperialism or practical lingua franca?: Peter Ives. PART 11
Politics in language — Politics and the English language: George Orwell;
The pronouns of power and solidarity: Roger Brown & Albert Gilman;
Language, politics, and composition: a conversation with Noam Chomsky: Gary A.
Olson & Lester Faigley; Troubling clarity: the politics of accessible
language: Patti Lather; The neutrality of the status quo: Robin T. Lakoff. PART
12 ‘Critical’ (applied) linguistics and critical discourse analysis
— Notes on critical linguistics: Roger Fowler; Against arbitrariness: the
social production of the sign as a foundational issue in critical discourse
analysis: Gunther Kress; Teaching the politics of Standard English: Anne
Curzan; ‘Political correctness’: the politics of culture and
language: Norman Fairclough; Emotion and language politics: the Brazilian case:
Kanavillil Rajagopalan; Disinventing and (re)constituting languages: Sinfree
Makoni & Alastair Pennycook.
Contact Information and Office Hours
Mailing address: Linguistics & English Language, The University of Edinburgh, Dugald Stewart Building, 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AD, UK.
E-mail address: John.Joseph@ed.ac.uk
Office phone: +44 (0)131 650 3497 / Secretary’s phone: +44 (0)131 650 6802
Fax: +44 (0)131 651 3190
Office: 2.08 Dugald Stewart Building
Office hour: by appointment
Posts Held
Professor of Applied Linguistics (since 1 January 1997) and Head of Linguistics & English Language (since 1 July 2011), The University of Edinburgh. I previously served as Head of the Department of Applied Linguistics from 1997 until 1999, when we merged to form the Department of Theoretical & Applied Linguistics. Another merger in 2005 has created Linguistics & English Language (LEL) as a subject area within the School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences (PPLS).
LEL descends principally from the Chair of
English Language and General Linguistics, to which Angus McIntosh (1914-2005)
was appointed in 1948, and the School of Applied Linguistics, founded by Ian
Catford in 1957. In 1964 McIntosh’s chair was split, with him continuing
to occupy the Chair of English Language, while a new chair of General
Linguistics was created to which John Lyons was appointed. Also in 1964 a Chair
of Phonetics was created for David Abercrombie (1909-1992), who had been
lecturing at Edinburgh since 1948. In 1967 General Linguistics and Phonetics
merged to form the Department of Linguistics & Phonetics, then were joined
in 1969 by Applied Linguistics to form the Department of Linguistics. Applied
Linguistics then split off in 1985 to form a separate department.
Previous posts
and visiting posts. Professor of
English Language and Linguistics and Head of the Department of English at the
University of Hong Kong (1993-96). Associate Professor in the Department of
French and Italian at the University of Maryland at College Park (1986-93).
Assistant, then Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and
Literatures at Oklahoma State University (1981-85).
From 1978-80 I taught French at the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor while completing my PhD there, and in 1980-81
was Lecturer in Linguistics at the Université Paul Valéry in
Montpellier, France. In 1985 I was Visiting Associate Professor at the
University of Maine, and in 1993 I held joint fellowships from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. In 1998
I spent a month as Visiting Research Associate in the Center for English
Language Research and Teaching at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
In 1999-2000 I held a Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust for a
project on identity and the construction of language. In the summers of 2000
and 2001 I taught a course on the Master’s in Applied Linguistics at
RELC, the Regional Language Centre of the Southeast Asian Ministers of
Education Organisation, in Singapore, and in the summers of 2003-4 I
co-convened (with Talbot J. Taylor) a Summer Institute on “The Concept of
Language in the Academic Disciplines” at the National Humanities Center
(North Carolina) and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
Offices in Professional Organisations
- Comité d’organisation, Cercle
Ferdinand de Saussure (2009- present)
- Member of the Executive Committee of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas (1997-present)
- Immediate Past President, North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences
- Ordinary Member of the Council of the Philological Society (1998-2003)
Editorial Activities
- Co-Editor of Language & Communication.
- Associate Editor of Historiographia Linguistica.
- Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Language and Communication, Language Sciences, Logos and Language, RELC Journal.
- Member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the monograph series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, Discourse Studies and Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, all published by John Benjamins (Amsterdam and Philadelphia).
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Current Research Projects
Language and Identity, 2nd
ed. I am currently planning a new,
expanded edition of Language and Identity:
National, Ethnic, Religious, to
be published by Palgrave Macmillan.
Language and the Body —
the Abstract and the Concrete. Over
the last decade, as part of my research on language and identity, language and
politics and the history of linguistics, I have been been pursuing an enquiry
into the bodily dimensions of language, from ancient times to the present. I am
now drawing this together into a unified project, covering both conceptual
developments and their (sometimes horrific) applications. It is a challenge,
because so many different aspects of the subject are involved, including but
not limited to:
·
the Aristotelian
model of language as physical reponse to perception or judgement, mediated by pathemata and phantasia
·
how and why the
Galenic tradition of treating language as a bodily phenomenon was (nearly) lost
·
the Epicurean
belief in the origin of language as a manifestation of the racial body
·
the Christian
disjunction between the language of beings with and without bodies
·
the shifting
views from the Renaissance to the presence as to what constitutes concreteness
and abstraction in language
·
how the creation
of a ‘standard language’ represents an attempt to abstract language
away from its bodily aspects toward a purely rational ideal
·
how modern linguistics
too has tried to imagine language as purely mental, marginalising (or
idealising) all its physical aspects
·
changing views
and uses of obscene language, and how it can be seen as a return of the
repressed body
·
how, for
Saussure, all linguistic signs are abstract (in our use of the term, though
‘concrete’ in his)
·
how historical
linguistics has based itself on preconceptions about the relationship of the
mental and the physical
·
the place of the
bodily in evolutionary and genetic approaches to language
·
the place of the
bodily in the relationship between racism and linguistics
·
how the
‘social’ relates to the body
·
attempts in the
20th century to diagnose schizophrenia through the overuse of
concrete terms
·
attempts at
‘lie detection’ through the measurement of physical phenomena
during language production
·
the reinscribing
of language in the body in French structuralism (particularly Merleau-Ponty and
Bourdieu)
·
how
‘distributed cognition’ creates new possibilities for rescuing
language from the dominant mental/rational idealisations
·
how recent work
tracing mental processing of concrete and abstract words using fMRI scans is
rendered dubious by an insufficiently critical approach to these categories.
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Publications 2001-present
(For my publications prior to 2001, and of book reviews and some minor items, click here).
Books Authored
Language
and Politics. (Edinburgh
Textbooks in Applied Linguistics Series.) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press,
2006. Pp. x, 170. ISBN: 074862452 / 0748624538 (pbk). Distributed in USA by
Columbia University Press, New York.
— Latvian version, Valoda un Politika, translated by Romāra Valdmane, Riga: Zinātne Publishers, 2008. Pp. 207. ISBN: 978-9984-808-51-2.
“…the
implications of Joseph’s stance can hardly be exaggerated… the
veneer of science does not make linguistics any the less political; it only
helps to camouflage its political nature… There can be no doubt that he
has succeeded immensely in his self-confessed project of stimulating further
discussion.” - Applied Linguistics
“It is a book that I found stimulating,
extremely wide ranging, well argued, at times witty (a sign of
assurance), always to the point, and one that admirably fulfils its
aim to provide an advanced introduction to a chosen field of
contemporary applied linguistics within the series of publications
to which it belongs.” - ELT Journal
“…an incredibly comprehensive but
detailed discussion of the subject…” - Language and Literature
“Joseph’s
volume is a much needed exploration of the political aspects of language and
would undoubtedly serve as a useful course text… [T]his text is
invaluable in that it is able to take up the key ideas that surround issues of
language and politics and includes an excellent introduction to the theories
and theorists who have contributed to the debates.” - Language Policy
“In his
monograph, John E. Joseph sets out to explore a variety of topics under the
rubric of language and politics; and he succeeds in tying together variegated
threads to provide a broad yet coherent introduction to the subject. The book,
as part of the Edinburgh Textbooks in Applied Linguistics series, is aimed at a
master’s level postgraduate audience. Yet the concise format and accessible
presentation make it well-suited for a variety of undergraduate
sociolinguistics courses as well. In fact, one of the book’s strengths is
its explicit articulation of many ideas central not just to language and
politics, but to the study of language in society more broadly.” - Journal
of Sociolinguistics
“His
discussion of Chomsky’s views on language and politics is the best I have
read, and when combined with Joseph’s fair treatment of CDA methodology,
Chapter 6 could stand alone as an excellent reading for an introductory course
on linguistics, communication, or discourse analysis. Joseph’s book
presents many strong opinions, not all of which I personally agree with. But my
acts of disagreement exactly prove his point: that politics in language is always
and everywhere, or at least has the potential to be. Embracing the politics in
his own language, Joseph is quite frank with his own opinions and engages the
reader in a provocative discussion of every controversial issue. I highly
recommend this book for anyone interested in language and the people who use
it.” - Discourse & Society
“Language
and Politics is that rare thing, a book that will function equally well as
an introduction for novices and as a scholarly resource for established
academics and researchers. Even though it is published in an Applied
Linguistics series, it will certainly be of interest to scholars outside this
discipline, such as sociologists, political scientists, social psychologists,
and historians. I started this review of Language and Politics with a
reference to Joseph’s previous book, Language and Identity. Together
these books provide excellent and up-to-date treatments of both the historical
and contemporary roles played by language in our political life, and of
politics in our understanding and experience of language. It will not be
surprising if both these books enjoy the privilege of second and third lives:
they certainly deserve to be used widely as teaching and scholarly
resources.” - Southem African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
“In sum, an
important contribution for understanding the reality of the politics of
language, and the language of politics, in the world in which we live.” -
DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística
Teórica e Aplicada
“Few applied linguists in the 21st century either could
or would want to deny the significance of political questions for their
thinking and their practice. Teachers and students of applied linguistics will
therefore welcome John Joseph’s wide-ranging and informative text. In the
spirit of his initial declaration that ‘language is political from top to
bottom’, Joseph brings together issues that are often kept apart, draws
on insights from a range of disciplines and thinkers, and offers - while
explicitly inviting the reader to argue or disagree with him - his own
perspectives on such topical questions as linguistic imperialism and the global
spread of English, hate speech and politically correct language, and the
‘manufacture of consent’ through political propaganda. The result
is a grown-up introductory text, addressed to readers who want their textbooks
to make them think.” - Deborah Cameron, Rupert Murdoch Professor of
Language and Communication, University of Oxford
Language, this book argues, is political from top to bottom,
whether considered at the level of an individual speaker’s choice of
language or style of discourse with others (where interpersonal politics are
performed), or at the level of political rhetoric, or indeed all the way up to
the formation of national languages. By bringing together this set of topics
and highlighting how they are interrelated, the book will function well as a
textbook on any applied or sociolinguistic course in which some or all of these
various aspects of the politics of language are covered.
CONTENTS
Chapter
One: Overview: How politics permeates language (and vice-versa) [draft.doc]
Chapter
Two: The social politics of language choice and linguistic correctness
Chapter
Three: Politics embedded in language
Chapter
Four: Taboo language and its restriction
Chapter
Five: Rhetoric, propaganda and interpretation
Chapter
Six: Conclusion: Power, hegemony and choices
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Language and Identity: National,
Ethnic, Religious. Houndmills,
Basingstoke, Hampshire & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. xii, 268. ISBN: 0333997522 / 0333997530
(pbk).
— Arabic version, al-Lugha
wa al-Huiya, translated by Abdel Nour Kraci, Kuwait: National Council for
Culture, Arts & Letters, 2007. Pp. 344. (For more information see http://www.annabaa.org/nbanews/66/507.htm.)
“…the best overarching treatment
of this topic to appear in recent years … I would recommend this book
very highly to all those with an interest in contemporary linguistics. The
author’s achievement in this volume is considerable, as the sweep of his
discussion unpacks a wide range of previously compartmentalized discussions of
identity and language. The major strength of the book is that it operates at the
level of ideas, not only from linguistics and psychology, but also ideas at a
level of intellectual discussion that cuts across the humanities and social
sciences.” - International Journal of Applied Linguistics
“…one of the most illuminating and
enjoyable scholarly works I have read on the subject. What makes Joseph’s
book all the more admirable is the author’s ability to make complex
theories of language and identity appear deceitfully simple without dumbing
them down…. Language and Identity is a most welcome contribution
to scholarship on the language-identity nexus. It is a compelling read that
should figure on the reading list of any course on language and
identity.” - International Journal of Bilingual Education and
Bilingualism
“This book is a profound introduction to
a complex topic, yet eminently enjoyable and thus a very welcome addition to
the field.” - The Year’s Work in English Studies
“Language and Identity is an
unsentimental, accurate, timely and useful book. It tells linguists to take
sociology and politics more seriously, and the rest of us to get our
linguistics right.” - Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural
Development
“…Language and Identity
offers an enlightening synopsis of the research on language and identity across
diverse disciplines. The case studies provide invaluable access to the role of
language in the nation-states of Hong Kong and Lebanon through ethnographic
research. I recommend this book for readers within or outside academia who seek
an overview of the intimate connection between language and identity from
theoretical as well as empirical perspectives. The combination of these two
perspectives makes this book an excellent introduction to the study of language
and identity for both teaching and research.” - Journal of Sociolinguistics
“This book opens an interesting and
well-founded window on how language and ethnic, religious and national identity
interconnect and give rise to the individual’s social self-image, and to
the group’s image in the eyes of its members. It is about finding the
human aspect, recovering the history of culture and social functioning, which
is not merely mechanical, but takes account of the ideas, beliefs and illusions
that are the baggage we carry with us on our journey.” - Language
Problems and Language Planning
“Joseph’s reader-friendly book
will also make a great primary text for advanced undergraduate and graduate
classes dealing with language, society, and identity…” - Estudios
de Sociolingüística
“...admirable
both in its scope and in its depth - the book goes far beyond prior books
touching on language and identity... It is well-written and should make for
trouble free (and even enjoyable) reading by undergraduates, graduate students
and the educated lay reader interested in language and languages or in the
related social sciences, psychology and, perhaps, even literary studies.”
- Joshua A. Fishman, Distinguished University Professor, Yeshiva University,
USA
Offering a uniquely broad-based overview of the role of language choice in the construction of national, ethnic and religious identity, this textbook examines a wide range of specific cases from various parts of the world in order to arrive at some general principles concerning the links between language and identity. It will benefit students and researchers in a wide range of fields where identity is an important issue and who currently lack a single source to turn to for an overview of sociolinguistics.
CONTENTS
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Linguistic Identity and the Functions and Evolution of Language
Chapter Three: Approaching Identity in Traditional Linguistic Analysis
Chapter Four: Integrating Perspectives from Adjacent Disciplines
Chapter Five: Language in National Identities
Chapter Six: Case Study 1 -The New Quasi-Nation of Hong Kong
Chapter Seven: Language in Ethnic/Racial and Religious/Sectarian Identities
Chapter Eight: Case Study 2 - Christian and Muslim Identities in Lebanon
Afterword: Identity and the Study of Language
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From Whitney
to Chomsky: Essays in the History of American Linguistics. (Studies in
the History of the Language Sciences Series, 103.) Amsterdam and Philadelphia:
John Benjamins, 2002. Pp. viii, 234. ISBN: 1588113493 / 1588113507
(pbk).
“Any reader comes away from
J[oseph]’s volume with a strong sense of the urgency for linguistics in
particular to pay much closer attention to the specifics of its own history and
no less to the place of that history in the culture from which it
emerges.” - Language
“[...] broad in scope, eclectic in
coverage, and highly original in its insights about a history that has alays
been far too simple, self-contained, and sanitized to be the whole
story.” - Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences
What is ‘American’ about American
linguistics? Is Jakobson, who spent half his life in America, part of it? What
became of Whitney’s genuinely American conception of language as a
democracy? And how did developments in 20th-century American linguistics relate
to broader cultural trends? This book brings together 15 years of research by
John E. Joseph, including his discovery of the meeting between Whitney and
Saussure, his ground-breaking work on the origins of the ‘Sapir-Whorf
Hypothesis’ and of American sociolinguistics, and his seminal examination
of Bloomfield and Chomsky as readers of Saussure. Among the original findings
and arguments contained herein:
-- why ‘American structuralism’ does not end with Chomsky, but
begins with him;
-- how Bloomfield managed to read Saussure as a behaviourist avant la lettre;
-- why in the long run Skinner has emerged victorious over Chomsky;
-- how Whorf was directly influenced by the mystical writings of Madame
Blavatsky;
-- how the Whitney-Max Müller debates in the 19th century connect to the
intellectual disparity between Chomsky’s linguistic and political
writings.
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Landmarks
in Linguistic Thought II: The Western Tradition in the Twentieth Century (with Nigel
Love and Talbot J. Taylor). (Routledge History of Linguistic Thought Series.)
London and New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. xiii, 265. ISBN: 0415063965 /
0415063973 (pbk).
“…Landmarks in linguistic thought II is an excellent, immensely
useful book, which all students of language ought to be encouraged to read and
discuss. It is well written, intelligently conceived and very accessible. I
would very much have liked to have had access to it when I was an undergraduate
student.” - Journal of Linguistics
“...fills a long-standing need for an
intellectually solid survey of thought about language that bridges the divide
between language philosophy and linguistics.... Should be required reading in
virtually any academic course, graduate or undergraduate, that deals to any
extent with language.” - Paul Hopper, Carnegie Mellon University
Landmarks in Linguistic Thought II introduces the major issues and themes that have determined the development of Western thinking about language, meaning and communication in the twentieth century. Each chapter contains an extract from a ‘landmark’ text followed by a commentary, which places the ideas in their social and intellectual context. The book is written in an accessible and non-technical manner and summarizes the contribution of the key thinkers who have shaped modern linguistics: Austin, Bruner, Chomsky, Derrida, Firth, Goffman, Harris, Jakobson, Labov, Orwell, Sapir, Skinner, Whorf, Wittgenstein. This second volume follows on from Landmarks in Linguistic Thought I, which introduces the key thinkers up to the twentieth century. The series is ideal for anyone with an interest in the history of linguistics or of ideas.
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And one pre-2001 item:
Limiting the Arbitrary: Linguistic Naturalism and its Opposites in Plato’s Cratylus and Modern Theories of Language. (Studies in the History of the Language Sciences Series, 96.) Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2000. Pp. ix, 224. ISBN: 1556197497.
“[A]
must-read for any serious linguist, let alone a linguistic historiographer.
[The author’s] mission is to challenge linguists to reflect on their own
fundamental assumptions and to recognize that there is nothing much new under
the sun — and in this he succeeds admirably. The whole is an enjoyable
and thought-provoking read.” - Historiographia
Linguistica
The
idea that some aspects of language are ‘natural’, while others are
arbitrary, artificial or derived, runs all through modern linguistics, from
Chomsky’s GB theory and Minimalist program and his concept of E- and
I-language, to Greenberg’s search for linguistic universals,
Pinker’s views on regular and irregular morphology and the brain, and the
markedness-based constraints of Optimality Theory. Limiting the Arbitrary
traces the heritage of this linguistic naturalism back to its locus classicus,
Plato’s dialogue Cratylus. Part One is a detailed examination of the
linguistic arguments in the Cratylus. Part Two follows three of the
dialogue’s naturalistic themes through subsequent linguistic history --
natural grammar and conventional words, from Aristotle to Pinker; natural
dialect and artificial language, from Varro to Chomsky; and invisible
hierarchies, from Jakobson to Optimality Theory -- in search of a way forward
beyond these seductive yet spurious and limiting dichotomies.
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Books Edited
Language and Politics:
Major Themes in English Studies, 4-volume set, ed. with a new
introduction by John E. Joseph. London and New York: Routledge, published 24
June 2010. (See under News, above.)
Forthcoming:
Ferdinand de Saussure:
Critical Assessment of Leading Linguists, 4-volume set, ed. with a new introduction by John E.
Joseph. London and New York: Routledge.
Chapters in Books
“Chomsky's Atavistic Revolution (with a little help from his enemies)”. Chomskyan (R)evolutions, ed. by Douglas A. Kibbee, 1-18. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2010.
“Communicating Hatred: Language, Identity and the Crime of Incitement”. Linguistic Interaction in/& Specific Discourses, ed. by Marta Conejero López, Micaela Muñoz Calvo & Beatriz Penas Ibáñez, 65-78. València: Universitat Politècnica de València, 2010.
“Hermeneiaphobia: Why an ‘Inventive’ Linguistics Must First Embrace Interpretation”. Inventive Linguistics, ed. by Sandrine Sorlin, 95-105. Montpellier: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2010.
“Identity”. Language and Identities, ed. by Carmen Llamas and Dominic Watt, 9-17. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010.
“Language and
Nationalism.” Nations and Nationalisms: A Global Historical Overview,
ed. by Guntram H. Herb
and David H. Kaplan, vol. 2: 1880-1945,
471-484. Santa Barbara, Denver and Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 2008.
“842, 1871 and All That:
Alsace-Lorraine and the Transformations of Linguistic Nationalism”. The
French Language and Questions of Identity, ed. by Wendy Ayres-Bennett and
Mari C. Jones, 44-52. London & Cambridge, Mass.: Legenda, 2007.
“Il
comportamento linguistico di un gruppo minoritario”. Minoranze
linguistiche: Prospettive, strumenti, territori, a cura di Carlo Consani e
Paola Desideri, 48-55. Roma:
Carocci, 2007.
“The Natural: Its Meanings and Functions in the History of Linguistic Thought”. Papers from the Tenth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS X), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2-5 Sep. 2005, ed. by Douglas A. Kibbee, 1-23. (Studies in the History of the Language Sciences.) Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2007.
“‘The Grammatical Being Called a Nation’: History and the Construction of Political and Linguistic Nationalism”. Language and History: Integrationist Perspectives, ed. by Nigel Love, 120-141. (Routledge Advances in Communication and Linguistic Theory, 4.) London & New York: Routledge, 2006.
“The Shifting Role of Languages in Lebanese Christian and Moslem Identities”. Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion, ed. by Joshua A. Fishman and Tope Omoniyi, 165-179. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2006.
“The Tongues of Men and of Angels: Knowledge, Inner Speech and
Diglossia in Medieval Linguistic Thought”. Flores Grammaticae: Essays
in Memory of Vivien Law, ed. by Nicola McLelland and Andrew R. Linn,
119-139. (The Henry Sweet Society Studies in the History of Linguistics, 10.) Münster: Nodus, 2005.
“Les affinités psychologiques de Victor Henry”. Linguistique et partages disciplinaires à la charnière des XIXe et XXe siècles: Victor Henry (1850-1907), ed. by Christian Puech., 291-307. (Bibliothèque de L’Information Grammaticale, 55.) Louvain & Paris: Peeters, 2004.
“Body, Passions and Race in Classical Theories of Language and
Emotion”. Emotion in Dialogic Interaction: Advances in the Complex,
ed. by Edda Weigand, 73-96. (Current
Issues in Linguistic Theory, 248.) Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John
Benjamins, 2004.
“Créativité linguistique, interprétation et contrôle de l’esprit selon Orwell et Chomsky”. Le discours sur la langue sous les régimes autoritaires, ed. by Patrick Sériot and Andrée Tabouret-Keller, 81-92. Lausanne: Cahiers de L’Institut de Linguistique et des Sciences du Langage de l’Université de Lausanne, no. 17, 2004. Reprinted in *Texto!*, vol. 11, no. 2 (juin 2006), available on:
http://www.revue-texto.net/Inedits/Joseph_Creativite.html.
“Language and Politics”. The Handbook of Applied Linguistics, ed. by Alan Davies and Catherine Elder, 347-366. (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics.) Malden, Mass. and Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
“Linguistic Identity and the Limits of Global English”. Globalization: English and Language Change in Europe, ed. by Anna Duszak and Urszula Okulska, 17-33. Frankfurt, Berlin, Bern, Brussels, New York & Oxford: Peter Lang, 2004.
“The Linguistic Sign”. The Cambridge Companion to Saussure, ed. by Carol Sanders, 59-75. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
“Rethinking Linguistic Creativity”. Rethinking Linguistics, ed. by Hayley Davis and Talbot J. Taylor, 121-150. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
“Is Language a Verb? Conceptual Change in Linguistics and Language Teaching”. Language in Language Teacher Education, ed. by Hugh Trappes-Lomax and Gibson Ferguson, 29-48. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2002.
“Constructing Language and Identity”. Language Curriculum and Instruction in Multicultural Societies, ed. by Willy A. Renandya and Nilda R. Sunga, 15-41. (Anthology Series, 42.) Singapore: SEAMEO Regional Language Centre, 2001.
“The Exportation of Structuralist Ideas from Linguistics to Other Fields: An Overview”. History of the Language Sciences: An International Handbook on the Evolution of the Study of Language from the Beginnings to the Present, ed. by Sylvain Auroux, E. F. K. Koerner, Hans-Josef Niederehe and Kees Versteegh, vol. 2, 1880-1908. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2001.
Forthcoming:
“A Matter of Consequenz: Race and the Genius of the Chinese Language in Humboldt’s Letter to Abel-Remusat”. Philologie und Rassismus im 19. Jahrhundert, ed. by Markus Messling.
“Signs of Belonging: Culture, Identity and the English Language”. English Perspectives, ed. by Hamish McIlwraith. Amman, Jordan: The British Council.
“Small Universes and Big Individuals: Locating Humboldt in Evolving Conceptions of Language and Individualität”. Individualität und Universalität bei Wilhelm von Humboldt, ed. by Jürgen Trabant and Ute Tintemann.
Articles in Refereed Journals
“‘The Unilingual Republic of the World’: Reactions to the 1872 Proposal to Make English the National Language of Japan”. Revista argentina de historiografía lingüística 3/1 (2011), 53-65.
“Harris’s
Saussure — Harris as Saussure: The Translations of the Cours and the Third Course”. Language
Sciences 33 (2011), 524-530.
“Théories et politiques de Noam
Chomsky”. Langages, no. 182
(juin 2011), 55-67.
“Saussure’s
Notes of 1881-1885 on
Inner Speech, Linguistic Signs and Language Change”. Historiographia Linguistica 37 (2010), 105-132.
“Why
Lithuanian Accentuation Mattered to Saussure”. Language and History 52 (2009), 182-198.
“The Attack on Saussure in Le Genevois, December 1912”. Cahiers
Ferdinand de Saussure 61
(2008), 251-281.
“Les
limites de l’assimilation linguistique selon Léopold de
Saussure”. Histoire
— Épistémologie — Langage 29
(2007), 131-143.
“Two Mysteries of Saussure’s Early Years
Resolved.” Historiographia Linguistica 34 (2007), 155-166.
“Linguistic Identities: Double-Edged Swords”. Language Problems and Language Planning 30 (2006), 261-267.
“Viewpoint: Applied Linguistics and the Choices People Make (or Do They?)”. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 16 (2006), 237-241.
“The Centenary of the First Publication of Saussure’s Sign Theory — Odier (1905)”. Historiographia Linguistica 32 (2005), 309-324.
“Pictet’s Du beau (1856) and the Crystallisation of Saussurean Linguistics”. Historiographia Linguistica 30 (2003), 365-388.
“Globalization and the Spread of English: The Long Perspective”. Journal of Southeast Asian Education: The Official Journal of SEAMEO Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization 2 (2001), no. 2, Language Education: Regional Issues in the 21st Century, ed. by Goh Chi Lan and Christopher S. Ward, 212-240.
“Natural Language Versus the Literary Standard from Varro to Saussure”. Journal of Literary Semantics 30 (2001), 19-36.
Forthcoming:
“Alien Species: The Discursive Othering of Grey Squirrels, Glasgow Gaelic, Shetland Scots and the Gay Guys in the Shag Pad”. Language & Intercultural Communication 13, no. 2.
“Identity Work and Face Work across Linguistic and Cultural Boundaries”. Journal of Politeness Research, special issue on The Interconnections between Face and Identity, ed. by Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich.
“Lingua, cittadinanza e libertà
personale”. Paradigmi: Rivista di
critica filosofica.
“Les
‘Souvenirs’ de Saussure revisités”. Langages, no. 178.
“‘La teinte de tous les
ciels’ : Divergence et nuance dans la conception saussurienne du
changement linguistique”. Cahiers
Ferdinand de Saussure 63 (2010).
“La ‘Voie Radicale’ de
la linguistique appliquée à Édimbourg”. Histoire — Épistémologie
— Langage.
TLS
articles
“The Secret Saussure”. The Times Literary Supplement, no. 5459, 16 Nov. 2007, 14-15. [Note: Link sometimes doesn’t work; a Google Search for “Poet Who Could Smell Vowels” will bring up a link that does work.]
[“The Secret
Saussure” is the title on the cover of the TLS. Other titles:
“He Was an Englishman — Ferdinand de Saussure’s
Ancestry” (Table of Contents), “He Was an Englishman: Ferdinand de
Saussure, the father of structuralism, owed much to Hobbes and Mill, and
numbered Henry VII among his ancestors” (over the actual article),
“The Poet Who Could Smell Vowels” (version linked to Sunday
Times website).]
“Root and Branch: Pictet’s Role in the Crystallization of Saussure’s Thought”. The Times Literary Supplement, no. 5258, 9 Jan. 2004, 12-13.
Special Issue of Journal
“The Concept of Language in the Academic Disciplines” (co-edited with Talbot J. Taylor), special issue of Language & Communication, vol. 26 (2006), nos. 3-4.
Review Articles
“This
Hill Is Mine, God Made My Hill for Me”. Language Sciences 31 (2009) 874-878. [On Language, Religion and National Identity in Europe and the Middle East:
A Historical Study by John Myhill.]
“Undangerous
Fair-Mindedness: The Culmination of Two Men’s Search for Saussure”.
Historiographia
Linguistica 35 (2008), 163-176. [On À la recherche de Ferdinand de Saussure,
by Michel Arrivé and Nouveaux regards sur Saussure: Mélanges
offerts à René Amacker, ed. by Louis de: Saussure.]
“Orthodox Unorthodoxy”. Language
Sciences 25 (2003), 99-109. [On Introduction to Integrational
Linguistics by Roy Harris.]
“The Ostrich and the Cuckoo”. Journal
of Language and Social Psychology 21 (2002), 433-441. [On Introduction
to Applied Linguistics by Alan Davies and Critical Applied Linguistics:
A Critical Introduction by Alastair Pennycook.]
Encyclopedia Entries
“Ethnolinguistic
Identity”. Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the Language Sciences, ed. by Patrick Colm
Hogan, 292-293. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
“Language and
Identity”. Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the Language Sciences, ed. by Patrick Colm
Hogan, 369-371. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
“James Beattie”. Encyclopedia of Language
and Linguistics, 2nd ed., ed. by Keith Brown, 1:706-707. Oxford: Elsevier,
2006.
“‘Evolutionary Theories of Language:
Previous Theories”. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd
ed., ed. by Keith Brown, 4:365-369. Oxford: Elsevier, 2006.
“Identity and Language”. Encyclopedia
of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed., ed. by Keith Brown, 5:486-492.
Oxford: Elsevier, 2006.
“E. F. K. Koerner”. Encyclopedia of
Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed., ed. by Keith Brown, 6:232. Oxford:
Elsevier, 2006.
“Plato’s Cratylus and its Legacy”. Encyclopedia
of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed., ed. by Keith Brown, 9:636-638.
Oxford: Elsevier, 2006.
“Adam Smith”. Encyclopedia of Language
and Linguistics, 2nd ed., ed. by Keith Brown, 11:430-432. Oxford: Elsevier,
2006.
“Structuralism”. Encarta World English
Encyclopedia 2005. London: Websters Multimedia, 2004.
“The Saussurean Tradition and
Sociolinguistics”. Concise Encyclopedia of Sociolinguistics, ed. by
Rajend Mesthrie, 73-80. Amsterdam, New York and Oxford: Pergamon, 2001.
Forthcoming:
“Cultural
Identity”. The Encyclopedia of
Applied Linguistics, ed. by Carol A. Chapelle. Wiley-Blackwell.
“Language,
Politics, and the Nation State”. The
Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, ed. by Carol A. Chapelle.
Wiley-Blackwell.
“Nation”.
The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics,
ed. by Carol A. Chapelle. Wiley-Blackwell.
“Role
of Language and Place in Language Policy”. The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, ed. by Carol A. Chapelle.
Wiley-Blackwell.
Some Recent Book Reviews (see also Review
Articles, above)
Signs of Light: French and
British Theories of Linguistic Communication, 1648-1789, by Matthew Lauzon (Ithaca, NY & London: Cornell
University Press, 2010). Historiographia
Linguistica 38 (2011), 179-183.
The Ethics of Identity, by Kwame Anthony Appiah
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005). Journal of Multilingual and
Multicultural Development 31 (2010), 325-327.
Colonialism and Grammatical
Representation: John Gilchrist and the Analysis of the ‘Hindustani’
Language in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries, by Richard
Steadman-Jones. (Publications of the Philological Society, 41; Oxford &
Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2007). Historiographia Linguistica 36 (2009),
132-136.
Language, Culture and Identity: An
Ethnolinguistic Perspective, by Philip Riley (London and New York: Continuum, 2007). Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural
Development 30 (2009),
182-184.
Languages and Nations: The Dravidian
Proof in Colonial Madras, by Thomas R. Trautmann (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University
of California Press, 2006). Applied
Linguistics 29 (2008),
518-521.
‘Along the Routes to
Power’: Explorations of Empowerment Through Language, ed. by Martin Pütz, Joshua Fishman & J.
Neff-van Aertselaer (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2006). Journal of
Multilingual and Multicultural Development 28 (2007), 537-539.
Writings
in General Linguistics, by Ferdinand de Saussure, ed. by Simon Bouquet & Rudolf Engler,
transl. by Carol Sanders & Matthew Pires (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2006). Modern Language Review 102 (2007), 848-849.
Multilingualism
in the English-speaking World, by Viv Edwards (Malden, Mass. and Oxford:
Blackwell, 2004). International Journal of Applied Linguistics 16 (2006), 115-119.
Foundations of National Identity:
From Catalonia to Europe, by Josep R.
Llobera (Oxford: Berghahn, 2004). The Sociological Review 53 (2005),
781-785.
A
History of Roget’s Thesaurus: Origins, Development, and Design, by
Werner Hüllen (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). Word
56 (2005), 278-279.
Forthcoming:
Enigmas
of Identity, by Peter Brooks
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011). The European Legacy.
Irresistible
Signs: The Genius of Language and Italian Nationalism, by Paola Gambarota (Toronto: University of Toronto
Press, 2011). Historiographia
Linguistica.
Paths
to Post-Nationalism: A Critical
Ethnography of Language and Identity, by Monica Heller (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press,
2011). Language in Society.
Zellig
Harris: From American Linguistics to Socialist Zionism, by Robert F. Barsky (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press,
2011). The European Legacy.
Papers Presented 2008-2012 and forthcoming
Plenary address, The Making of the Humanities III: Third International Conference on the
History of the Humanities, Huizinga Research Institute and Graduate School for
Cultural History, Netherlands Royal Institute in Rome (KNIR), October 2012.
Plenary address, Jornadas internacionales
de historia de la lingüística, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1-3
August 2012.
“Alien Species: Identity and
Immigration at the Fuzzy Border of Political and Scientific Discourse”.
Applied Linguistics and Cross-Cultural Communication guest speaker series,
University of Newcastle, 13/14 February 2012.
“Reason, Passion and Genius in
Linguistic Thought from the Neo-Epicureans to the Saussure Brothers”.
Cambridge University Linguistics Society, 2 February 2012.
“Sustaining Myth: How Languages Get
and Lose their Mojo”. Invited paper, Cambridge Endangered Languages and
Cultures Group, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and
Humanities, Cambridge University, 9 November 2011.
“Signs of Belonging: Indexing and
Interpreting Identity in Language”. Keynote address, Symposium on
Language and Identity, University of Tartu, Estonia, 20-22 October 2011.
“Signs of Belonging: Culture,
Identity and the English Language”. Invited paper, Symposium on European
Languages and Linguistics, University of Jordan, 2 October 2011.
“The Pragmatics of Political and
Scientific Discourse on Drugs Policy”. Panel on The Pragmatics of (New) Genres in Political
Communication, organised by Ruth Wodak, 12th International Pragmatics
Association Conference, Manchester, 3-8 July 2011.
“The Metaphor of Scale and the Discursive Politics of Making and
Contesting Languages”. Invited paper, 8th International Colloquium on
Problems and Methods of the History of Language, Universitat de Girona, Spain,
21-23 June 2011.
“19th-Century Philologists on Class
and Race in the Ancient Indo-European Migrations”. Invited paper, Wort
macht Stamm — Rassismus und Determinismus in der Philologie des 19.
Jahrhunderts: Eine transdiciplinäre Konferenz, organised by the German
Research Foundation, the University of Potsdam, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt,
the French Embassy and Institut Français and the Literaturhaus Berlin,
Potsdam and Berlin, 26-29 May 2011.
“Alien Species: The Discursive
Othering of Grey Squirrels, Glasgow Gaelic, Shetland Scots and the Gay Guys in
the Shag Pad”. Invited paper, Discourse and Transnational Identities:
Fourth International Roundtable on Discourse Analysis, City University of Hong
Kong, 19-21 May 2011.
“The Concepts of ‘Native
Speaker’ and ‘Standard Language’: Discipline, Habitus,
Identity”. Linguistics Research Seminar Series, University of
Northumberland, 2 March 2011.
Introductory talk, book launch for What If Derrida Was Wrong about Saussure?
by Russell Daylight (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011),
Blackwell’s, South Bridge, Edinburgh, 16 February 2011.
“Abstract and Concrete”.
University of Edinburgh Linguistic Society, 9 February 2011.
“Le corps du locuteur natif :
discipline, habitus, identité”. Invited paper, colloquium on
“Qui est (le) locuteur natif?”. Centre National
de Recherches Scientifiques, Laboratoire d’Histoire des Théories
Linguistiques, Paris, 9 October 2010.
“Saussure’s Mémoire on the Original
Indo-European Vowel System: Shedding Light on the Least Understood Book in the
Entire History of Linguistics”. Linguistic Circle, University of
Edinburgh, 30 September 2010.
“The Biography of Ferdinand de
Saussure”. Leslie Seiffert Memorial Lecture, Henry Sweet Society for the
History of Linguistic Ideas, Annual Colloquium, University of Sheffield, 9-11
September 2010.
Participant in round table discussion on
biography writing in the history of linguistics, Henry Sweet Society for the
History of Linguistic Ideas, Annual Colloquium, University of Sheffield, 9-11
September 2010.
“‘Predescription’ in
Discourse and Policy Research: The Case of Professor Parrott and Professor
Nutt”. Panel on Language and Politics, Sociolinguistics Symposium 18, Southampton,
1-4 September 2010.
“‘La
teinte de tous les ciels’: Divergence et nuance dans la conception
saussurienne du changement linguistique”. Invited paper, Cercle Ferdinand de Saussure, Annual Meeting, Geneva,
28-29 May 2010.
“Does the English Language Have a
Future?”. Talk to the English-Speaking Union Scotland, Edinburgh, 29
April 2010.
“Small Universes and Big Individuals:
Locating Humboldt in Evolving Conceptions of Language”. Invited paper,
conferernce on Individualität und Universalität bei Wilhelm von
Humboldt, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 8-10 April 2010.
“Abstract and Concrete”.
Invited paper, international workshop on Sciences of Communication in the
Twentieth Century, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin,
18-20 March 2010.
“‘A bulwark against invasion by
the foreign mind, a guarantee against annexation’: Language Teaching and
Political-Cognitive Autonomy in the Geneva of Saussure’s Youth”.
Language in Context Research Group, University of Edinburgh, 3 February 2010.
“La ‘Voie Radicale’ de la
linguistique appliquée à Édimbourg”. Invited paper,
annual meeting of Société d’Histoire et
d’Épistémologie du Langage, Paris, 30-31 January 2010.
“Pour
une relecture des ‘Souvenirs’ de Saussure”. Invited paper,
Colloque sur les manuscrits de F. de Saussure, Università di Calabria,
Arcavacata, Italy, 1-3 October 2009.
“Why Isn’t Multilingualism
Impossible?” Plenary lecture and postgraduate workshop, Spring School in
Linguistics, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, 23-24 March 2009.
“Hermeneiaphobia: Why an
‘Inventive’ Linguistics Must First Embrace Interpretation”.
Invited lecture, conference on Inventive Linguistics, Université de
Montpellier, France, 13-14 March 2009.
Seminar on Language, Identity and Politics,
University of Copenhagen, 20 November 2008.
“The Politics of Parallel Language
Use”. Invited address for opening of the Centre for Internationalisation
and Parallel Language Use, University of Copenhagen, 19 November 2008.
“The Education of Ferdinand de
Saussure and the Shape of Modern Linguistics”. Linguistic Circle of
Copenhagen, 18 November 2008.
“Locating Language in the Extended
Mind”. Invited paper to colloquium “Where Is Language?/Where Is
Culture?”, organised by the Meertens Institute to celebrate the
Bicentenary of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, and held at the
Amsterdam Trippenhuis, 12-14 November 2008.
“Les
grands récits et la biographie dans l’histoire des idées
linguistiques”. Invited seminar, École doctorale en histoire de la
linguistique, Université de Lausanne, Crêt-Bérard,
Switzerland, 25-27 September 2008.
“Saussure’s
‘Souvenirs’ Revisited”. 11th International Conference on the
History of the Language Sciences, University of Potsdam, Germany, 28 August-2
September 2008.
“Language, Identity, and Incitement
to Racial and Religious Hatred”. University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 19
February 2008.
“‘Unparalleled Babel’:
Hearing Linguistic Prehistory Unfold in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago”.
North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, Annual
Meeting (in conjunction with LSA), Chicago, 3-5 January 2008.