Article ID: CBB001450843

L'hypothèse de Firth: Wittgenstein, héritier de Malinowski? (2014)

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Godart-Wendling, Béatrice (Author)


Historiographia Linguistica: International Journal for the History of the Language Sciences
Volume: 41, no. 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 9-108


Publication Date: 2014
Edition Details: Translated title: [The Firth Hypothesis: Wittgenstein as Malinowski's Heir?]
Language: French

The aim of this paper is to study the grounds for John Rupert Firth's (1890-1960) assumption that the 1923 paper, 'The Problem of Meaning in Primitive Languages' by the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942), would be a source of inspiration that would lead Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) to develop a new conception of meaning in terms of 'use'. Based on certain excerpts of Philosophical Investigations (1953), Firth established a filiation between -Malinowski's two key ideas, namely the importance of the notion of 'context of situation' and the idea that language is a 'mode of action') and the main theses that Wittgenstein promoted (meaning as use, language acquisition, language as a set of games). Assessing the force of that claim will lead to clarifying the synergy of ideas that took place in the matter of pragmatics in Great Britain of the first half of the 20th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Authors & Contributors
Loner, David
John Erik Hmiel
Bar-Haim, Shaul
Ahmet Süner
Beale, Jonathan
Annalisa Coliva
Concepts
Philosophy
Science and culture
Linguistics; philology
Logic
Science and politics
Epistemology
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
17th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Netherlands
Soviet Union
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