Historical Roots of Linguistic Theories

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1. Foreword 2. Linguistic Historiography between Linguistics and Philosophy of Language (by Formigari, Lia) 3. On the Origins of Historical Linguistics: Materials and proposals for the Italian case (by Droixhe, Daniel) 4. The Legacy of Classical Rhetorics (by Capt-Artaud, Marie-Claude) 5. Mechanical Models and the Language Sciences in the 18th Century (by Seris, Jean-Pierre) 6. The Beginnings of Psycholinguistics: Natural and artificial signs in the treatment of language disorders (by Pennisi, Antonino) 7. The Theory of Interjections in Vico and Rousseau (by d'Atri, Annabella) 8. The French Sources of Leopardi's Linguistics (by Stancati, Claudia) 9. Intellectual History, History of Ideas, History of Linguistic Ideas: The case of Condillac (by Crispini, Franco) 10. The 'Imperfect' Language: Notes on Alessandro Manzoni's linguistic ideas (by Gensini, Stefano) 11. Old Debates and Current Problems: 'Volkerpsychologie' and the question of the individual and the social in language (by Graffi, Giorgio) 12. The Question of the Significatum: A problem raised and solved (by Nef, Frederic) 13. The Embarassment of Communication from Mandeville to Grice (by Aqueci, Francesco) 14. The Semiological Sources of Semantics (by Auroux, Sylvain) 15. The Language-User in Saussure (and after) (by Simone, Raffaele) 16. The Analysis of French between the two World Wars (1914-1940) (by Chevalier, Jean-Claude) 17. Forms of Imperfect Augustinianism (by Vecchio, Sebastiano) 18. The Convention of Geneva: History of linguistic ideas and history of communicative practices (by Gambarara, Daniele) 19. Index of Authors 20. Index of Subjects and Terms