New episode of our podcast series “History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences“
How and why does language change?
Linguist and language historian James McElvenny, together with other language scientists, tackles this question on his blog hiphilangsci.net. Showing and encouraging the diversity of lingistic subjects, McElvenny and his guests explore key developments in language and communication sciences from the perspective of intellectual history: from the grammar in the works of Franz Bopp and Jacob Grimm to Ferdinand de Saussures’ structuralism.
James McElvenny is a researcher at the Collaborative Research Center (SFB 1187) „Media of Cooperation“ in Siegen, working in the project„P02 – Media of Praxeology II: History of audio-visual sequence analysis as a methodology“. The podcast is associated with this project which investigates the history of audio-visual sequence analysis across sociology linguistics and allied fields.
In the new episode from the 1st of June 2021, McElvenny enters the age of classical structuralism by exploring the phonological research of Roman Jakobson and his colleague Nikolai Trubetzkoy undertaken within the Prague Linguistic Circle.
The podcast series consists currently of 15 episodes which are available online on hiphilangsci.net.
Contact: James McElvenny (james.mcelvenny[æt]mailbox.org)