{"title":"Shaping Cantonese Grammar – Early Western Contribution","authors":"L. Paternicò","doi":"10.1051/HEL/2019006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/HEL/2019006","url":null,"abstract":"The first Westerners to learn and describe Cantonese were Protestant missionaries who arrived in China in the 19th century. Given the almost total lack of local linguistic tools, they began to present Cantonese in grammars, dictionaries, primers and phrasebooks, also devising Romanization systems to transcribe its sounds. The first attempt at describing Cantonese grammar was made by Robert Morrison in a section of his Grammar of the Chinese Language (1815). Many other works followed, compiled also by Catholic missionaries or lay scholars, and dedicated to the analysis and pedagogy of Cantonese. This paper will firstly offer an overview of the very early impressions of the language carried out by Westerners; it will then show how their analyses evolved, becoming more refined and detailed, and eventually − with to the work of T. O’Melia − grew more conscious and independent from the analyses of Mandarin, contributing ante litteram at debunking the myth of “one universal Chinese grammar”.","PeriodicalId":35179,"journal":{"name":"Histoire Epistemologie Langage","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57882717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Langage intérieur et origine de la conscience : le cas de Tran Duc Thao","authors":"Jacopo D’Alonzo","doi":"10.1051/HEL/2019008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/HEL/2019008","url":null,"abstract":"Bien que le langage intérieur soit une donnée fondamentale de la vie de l’esprit et malgré le fait que la recherche expérimentale sur le langage intérieur et ses fonctions devienne de plus en plus sophistiquée, la philosophie de l’esprit a rarement pris au sérieux le caractère langagier de la conscience et, dans le débat philosophique le plus récent sur le « mind-body problem » et le « hard problem of consciousness », la référence au langage, et en particulier au langage intérieur, n’est pas mobilisée sauf sous la forme du « language of thought ». Toutefois, l’étude philosophique d’un tel phénomène pourrait permettre de surmonter les limites des deux options qui se partagent le champ théorique, à savoir le physicalisme et le dualisme, et ainsi d’expliquer dialectiquement les spécificités de la cognition humaine. Dans les pages qui suivent, nous examinerons le cas de la réflexion philosophique de Tran Duc Thao (1917-1993) sur le langage intérieur dans ses Recherches sur l’origine du langage et de la conscience (1973), où l’auteur reconnait au langage et à son intériorisation un rôle central dans la formation de la conscience.","PeriodicalId":35179,"journal":{"name":"Histoire Epistemologie Langage","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57882751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ambiguïtés de la norme et réticences face à la prescription à la fin du XVIIe siècle en France","authors":"Gilles Siouffi","doi":"10.1051/hel/2019019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/hel/2019019","url":null,"abstract":"On se représente souvent la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle, en raison de l’importance de ses propositions prescriptives, comme un moment où les discours tenus ont été acceptés et suivis d’effet. C’est au volet « limites » que nous nous intéressons dans cette contribution. Après avoir apporté quelques précisions terminologiques sur ce que l’on peut appeler normes et prescriptions, nous revenons sur les fondements de l’« anti-prescriptivisme » au XVIIe siècle, notamment dans l’espace des « remarques sur la langue », et nous montrons comment ce courant de résistance aux prescriptions a été repris par la culture mondaine de la fin du siècle. Au total, nous considérons que, loin de pouvoir être considérée seulement comme une période de « réglage », la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle peut être vue au contraire comme un moment conflictuel et polémique, caractérisé par une altération de la normativité traditionnelle de la grammaire et par l’installation de régimes sociaux d’opposition qui rendent difficile tout établissement d’une norme unique adossée à une prescription claire.","PeriodicalId":35179,"journal":{"name":"Histoire Epistemologie Langage","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57882922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Grammatical Descriptions in Manchu Grammar Books from the Qing Dynasty","authors":"Takashi Takekoshi","doi":"10.1051/HEL/2019004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/HEL/2019004","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we analyse features of the grammatical descriptions in Manchu grammar books from the Qing Dynasty. Manchu grammar books exemplify how Chinese scholars gave Chinese names to grammatical concepts in Manchu such as case, conjugation, and derivation which exist in agglutinating languages but not in isolating languages. A thorough examination reveals that Chinese scholarly understanding of Manchu grammar at the time had attained a high degree of sophistication. We conclude that the reason they did not apply modern grammatical concepts until the end of the 19th century was not a lack of ability but because the object of their grammatical descriptions was Chinese, a typical isolating language.","PeriodicalId":35179,"journal":{"name":"Histoire Epistemologie Langage","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57882657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The introduction of English grammar studies into China in the 19thcentury","authors":"Tommaso Pellin","doi":"10.1051/HEL/2019007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/HEL/2019007","url":null,"abstract":"During the first half of the 19th century, Protestant missionaries based in China started teaching some English to the students attending their schools; in the second half of the century Chinese scholars opened their own language schools and wrote their grammarbooks of English.This contribution describes four of the grammarbooks for English that marked milestones in that period: Morrison’sA Grammar of the English Language(1823), Lobscheid’sChinese-English grammar(1864), Cáo Xiāng’sYīngzìrùmén(1874), and Wāng Fèngzǎo’sYīngwén jǔyú(1878). Its aim is to sketch the lines of the introduction of some of the key terms for grammar, within the theoretical framework of the phenomenon of grammatization of Chinese: the mutual influence from contemporary grammatical studies of Chinese and other languages will be highlighted.","PeriodicalId":35179,"journal":{"name":"Histoire Epistemologie Langage","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57882726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Autour des Langues dans l’Europe nouvelle \u0000Une réception de Meillet par les adeptes des langues artificielles","authors":"S. Moret","doi":"10.1051/hel/2019023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/hel/2019023","url":null,"abstract":"À l’occasion du centième anniversaire de la publication de la première édition (1918) des Langues dans l’Europe nouvelle d’Antoine Meillet, cet article aimerait, d’une part, revenir, à partir de documents d’archives, sur l’histoire de cet ouvrage important dans la carrière de Meillet et, d’autre part, s’intéresser plus précisément à la façon dont Les langues dans l’Europe nouvelle fut reçu par les adeptes des différentes langues internationales auxiliaires qui existaient à l’époque, compte tenu du fait que, dans son ouvrage, Meillet s’était exprimé positivement sur le sujet.","PeriodicalId":35179,"journal":{"name":"Histoire Epistemologie Langage","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57882561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}