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|Full Title:||Towards a History of Sound-Symbolic Theories|
|Location:||Dijon, Bourgogne, France|
|Start Date:||20-Feb-2014 - 21-Feb-2014|
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|Meeting Description:||Towards a History of Sound-Symbolic Theories
Traditions of the linguistic iconicity and Charles de Brosses’ contribution
International conference - Dijon (France), 20-21 February 2014
University of Burgundy - Burgundy Regional Council
A significant part of the recent research in cognitive neuroscience nowadays seems to support the assumption of an originally motivated relationship between phonetics and semantics (Rizzolatti and Arbib 1998, Ramachandran and Hubbard 2001, Gentilucci et al. 2001, Maurer et al. 2006, Rizzolatti and Craighero 2007, Imai et al. 2008, Ozturk et al. 2012). Given the distrust of most modern linguists on this topic and the scarcity of books of linguistics on it (exceptions are Hinton et al. 1994, Hamano 1998, Voeltz and Kilian-Hatz 2001, Bohas and Dat 2007), these scientists have sometimes been forced to mobilize authors of a bygone era to articulate a discourse around the experimental data they have. So Rizzolatti and Craighero cite repeatedly Condillac (1715-1780), while Ramachandran and Hubbard use, without quoting, a famous argument of Nigidius Figulus (98-45 BC.). If, on the one hand, this indicates a weakness of the current research in linguistics facing the challenge of natural sciences, it suggests, on the other hand, that the history of theories on language, through the epistemological hindsight it allows, could provide a valuable ground of mediation to initiate a fruitful exchange between these two disciplinary fields.
|Linguistic Subfield:||History of Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Philosophy of Language; Phonology; Psycholinguistics|
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