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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С днем рождения, dear Roman (1896-1982) 🥳

"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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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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#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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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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Franz Boas (1858-1942) would have turned 166 today! 🥳

Just as any other festive occasion, this one can also be perfectly celebrated by listening to one of the episodes of our podcast - for example episode no. 28!

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

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Podcast episode 28: Franz Boas and the Boasians

In this episode, we begin our exploration of American linguistics by looking at the innovative contributions of Franz Boas (1858–1942) and his circle of students.

History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences

Anna Morpurgo Davies (1937-2014), the great historian of linguistics, would have turned 87 today! 🥳

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