"This volume brings together, in 8 chapters, what has occupied the author during his many years as editor of Historiographia Linguistica. Namely, how the history of linguistics has developed into a major field of scholarly research, and that the discussion of questions of method and epistemology needs to be continued to avoid stereotypical practice. The author takes up a number of subjects that often had been regarded as settled, but which require a revisit. This is shown in several chapters, whether it appears subjects like 'analogy' or the relationships between well-known linguists like Saussure, Hermann Paul, and others"--.

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• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Preface
• Part I. Positions and problems in the history of linguistics
• Chapter 1. The historiography of linguistics past, present, future
  • 1. Prefatory remarks
  • 2. Motivations for writing the history of linguistics
    • 2.1 Summing-up histories of linguistics
    • 2.2 Celebratory or propagandistic histories of linguistics
    • 2.3 Detached histories of linguistics (Problemgeschichte)
    • 2.4 Historiography of linguistics
  • 3. The study of the history of linguistics: Early beginnings to the present
    • 3.1 Early phases of history-writing in linguistics
    • 3.2 Mid-20th-century efforts in history of linguistics
    • 3.3 Late 20th-century work in the history of linguistics
  • 4. Approaches to linguistic historiography
    • 4.1 History of linguistics and intellectual history
    • 4.2 History of linguistics and the philosophy of history
    • 4.3 Linguistic historiography and history & philosophy of science
    • 4.4 Linguistic historiography and sociology of science
    • 4.5 Toward a synthesis of differing approaches to linguistic history-writing
  • 5. The consolidation of linguistic historiography
  • 6. Remaining challenges in linguistic historiography
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Chapter 2. Pour une historiographie engagée; or where historians of linguistics could still do better
  • 1. The issues
  • 2. The challenge
  • 3. Continuing methodological and philosophical disagreements
  • 4. Observations on the development of history-writing in linguistics
  • 5. Some possible remedies and changes in direction
  • 6. Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Chapter 3. La place du Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris parmi les principales revues de linguistique de son temps
  • 1. Remarques préliminaires
  • 2. Petit survol historique
  • 3. En guise de conclusion
  • Remerciements
  • Références bibliographiques
  • Appendice
• Chapter 4. On the disappearance of August Schleicher in the writings of the Neogrammarians: The case of the analogy concept in historical lingustics
  • 1. Introductory observations
  • 2. The place of ‘analogy’ in the neogrammarian doctrine
  • 3. The treatment of Schleicher in linguistic historiography
  • 4. ‘Analogy’ in 19th-century linguistic thought
    • 4.1 Analogy in Whitney (1867, 1875)
    • 4.2 Analogy in Baudouin de Courtenay (1868)
  • 5. The treatment of ‘analogy’ in Scherer (1868)
  • 6. The place of ‘analogy’ in Schleicher (1860)
  • 7. Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Part II. Studies concerning the work of individual scholars
• Chapter 5. Baudouin de Courtenay’s relationship with Schleicher
  • 1. Introductory remarks
  • 2. The Schleicher–Baudouin connection
    • 2.1 Baudouin de Courtenay’s early publications
    • 2.2 Baudouin’s assessment of Schleicher’s legacy
  • 3. A brief summing-up
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Chapter 6. Hermann Paul, Saussure, and general linguistic theory
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Problems in recognizing Paul as a general linguist
  • 3. Paul vs. Gabelentz as forerunners of descriptive linguists
  • 4. Non-historical aspects of Paul’s theories of language study
    • 4.1 Descriptive vs. historical linguistics and the concept of language state
    • 4.2 Language custom vs. individual speech act
    • 4.3 Formal and material connections between words
  • 5. Terminological and conceptual correspondences
  • 6. Concluding remarks
  • 7. Coda
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Postscript
• Chapter 7. Edward Sapir: Assessments of his life and work
  • 1. Introductory observations
  • 2. Obituaries and biographical sketches, 1939–1952
  • 3. Intellectual influences and exchanges
  • 4. Comments on Sapir’s work in the first half of the 20th century
  • 5. The reception of Sapir’s ideas in the second half of the 20th century
  • 6. The discussion of particular aspects of Sapir’s theories
    • 6.1 Language typology and language classification
    • 6.2 Sapir’s contribution to phonological theory
    • 6.3 Sapir’s contribution to historical-comparative linguistics
    • 6.4 Sapir’s ‘psychology of culture’ and other non-linguistic ideas
  • 7. Edward Sapir and the so-called ‘Sapir-Whorf hypothesis’
  • 8. Sapir’s other engagements, including his literary pursuits
  • 9. Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • References 
• Chapter 8. The Baxtin myth and its historiography
  • 1. Prelude: Some remarks on Russian linguistic historiography
  • 2. The authorship of Marxizm and the philosophy of language
  • 3. Coda
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• List of biographical names in the history of linguistics