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Wilhelm von Humboldt and the "Orient": On Edward W. Said's Remarks on Humboldt's Orientalist Studies
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Messling, Markus – Language Sciences, 2008
From an epistemological perspective, Wilhelm von Humboldt's studies on the Oriental and East Asian languages and writing systems (Egyptian hieroglyphs, Sanskrit, Chinese, Polynesian) raise the question of his position in the Orientalist discourse of his time. Said [Said, E.W., 1978. "Orientalism. Western Conceptions of the Orient, fourth…
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Anthropology, Second Language Learning, Language Classification
Language Constructing Language: The Implications of Reflexivity for Linguistic Theory.
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Taylor, Talbot J. – Language Sciences, 2000
Asks what first-order language might be like if there were no way to talk, write, or sign about it--that is, what if there were no second-order metalanguage. By considering the consequences for writing, translation, pragmatics, semantics, and language acquisition and evolution, it is suggested that without second-order, reflexive properties,…
Descriptors: Languages, Metalinguistics, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning