Happy World Linguistics Day 🎉

Not Saussure how to celebrate? Episodes 12 and 13 of our podcast will give your plans some structure…

🎙️ https://hiphilangsci.net/2021/02/01/podcast-episode-12/

🎙️ https://hiphilangsci.net/2021/03/01/podcast-episode-13/

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Franz Boas would have turned 167 #OTD 🥳

Why not celebrate this anniversary by (re-)listening to episode 28 of our podcast, focusing on early 20th-century American linguistics, Franz Boas, and his circle of students!

🎙️ https://hiphilangsci.net/2022/10/01/podcast-episode-28/

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Anna Morpurgo Davies (1937-2014), an Indo-Europeanist, classicist, and historian of linguistics, would have turned 88 #OTD

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Všechno nejlepší, dear Bedřich/Friedrich!

To mark today’s 146th birthday of Bedřich Hrozný (1879–1952), consider eating a portion of bread, followed later by a glass of water 🥳

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#OTD 167 years ago, Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) was born 🥳

Episodes 12 and 13 of our podcast are considered by some to be the perfect way to celebrate this occasion.

12: https://hiphilangsci.net/2021/02/01/podcast-episode-12/

13: https://hiphilangsci.net/2021/03/01/podcast-episode-13/

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Podcast episode 12: Language as a system – Ferdinand de Saussure

In this episode, we look at Ferdinand de Saussure’s contributions to linguistics, which are widely considered to be foundational to the later movement of structuralism.

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Happy 128th birthday, dear Roman! 🥳

"If we wanted to characterise briefly the kind of thinking currently governing science in its most varied manifestations, we could not find a more fitting expression than structuralism."

🎙️ https://hiphilangsci.net/2021/06/01/podcast-episode-15/

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Podcast episode 15: Roman Jakobson, Prague Circle structuralism and phonology

In this episode, we enter the age of classical structuralism by exploring the phonological research of Roman Jakobson and his colleague Nikolai Trubetzkoy undertaken within the Prague Linguistic Ci…

History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences

Happy 178th birthday, dear Hermann! 🥳

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Johann Martin Schleyer (1831-1912), the inventor of Volapük, would have turned 193 #OTD and we say: "Yelami läbik!" 🥳

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Tillykke med fødselsdagen, dear Otto (1860-1943)! 🥳

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