Structuralism and Literary Tradition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2855394 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gordon M Messing (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1951 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1 |
| Publication date | 1951-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/410246 |
| OpenAlex | W2327274567 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
Since the Committee on the Language Program of the American Council of Learned Societies has recently begun to issue a series of structural sketches of various languages, it is evident with the appearance of the first monograph in this series (French, by Robert A. Hall Jr.) that the time is ripe to raise a general question which has hitherto been too carelessly passed over: are the methods of structural linguistics applicable in the same degree to the languages of culturally retrograde and of culturally advanced peoples? The question is not proposed in any captious spirit; but the reader should be forewarned that the remarks which follow take a direction diametrically opposed to that of much recent descriptive work in America, and particularly to the drift of many recent articles in Language. It is only fair to answer the question at once by stating roundly that in my opinion the same descriptive criteria cannot be applied to the speech of relatively backward and of relatively civilized peoples. The assumption of the contrary involves a linguist, I believe, in a number of highly questionable attitudes and erroneous working principles; in dealing with the language of a civilized people, he pursues an illusory goal of ‘scientific impartiality’ and proceeds to exclude from consideration precisely those elements which make the language a Kultursprache. The result is not only a limitation but in the strictest sense a falsification
Art · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Post structuralism · Structuralism (philosophy of science) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 1952 - 2012 (61) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |