Language and earth : effective affinities between the emerging sciences of linguistics and geology / edited by Bernd Naumann, Frans Plank, Gottfried Hofbauer.

Contributions to a symposium sponsored by the Werner-Reimers-Stiftung in Bad Homburg, Germany.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Papers in English and German.

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LANGUAGE AND EARTH; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; List of Contributors; FOREWORD; PREFACE; Sprachauffassung und Lebensmetaphorik im Umkreis von Friedrich Schlegel, Jacob Grimm und Alexander von Humboldt. Eine Kontaktzone von Naturphilosophie, Geowissenschaften und Linguistik; History of the Earth and Origin of Language in the 18th and 19th Century: The Case for Catastrophism; Geowissenschaftliche Methoden und Metaphern bei einigen Sprachpsychologen des 19. Jahrhunderts; Geology and the Science of Language: Metaphors and Models

Zur Wissenschaftskonzeption Georg Forsters und dessen biographischen Bezügen zu den Brüdern HumboldtThe Chemistry of Concepts; Natur und Poesie in der Sprachwissenschaft Jacob Grimms; Die Namen der Steine. Zur Sprache in deutschen geowissenschaftlichen Texten des ausgehenden 18. und beginnenden 19. Jahrhunderts; Tradition und Modernität in der Sprachwissenschaft des 18. Jahrhunderts: Die Herausforderung der Natur-und Geowissenschaften. Am Beispiel der neugegründeten Universität Göttingen; Language and Earth as Recycling Machines

William Dwight Whitney and the Influence of Geology on Linguistic Theory in the 19th CenturyEin fast vergessener Aktualist: Georg Christian Füchsel zu Ursprung und Entwicklung der Erde und der Sprache; Charles Lyell und Charles Darwin: Aktualismus und Evolution in der Geschichte der Sprachen; Bernhard von Cotta's ""Law of Development of the Earth""; Abraham Gottlob Werners Sprach- und Erkenntnistheorie und ihre Umbildung durch Karl von Raumer; James Hutton's Geological Vocabulary

Sprachliches im Werk des Tübinger Geologen und Paläontologen Friedrich August Quenstedt als Beispiel 'Volksnaher' WissenschaftsVermittlung im 19. JahrhundertName Index; Subject Index

In former times, the study of language was rarely pursued in isolation, and many of the other intellectual concerns that used to be intertwined with language study have long been on the record of historians of linguistics. The present volume is the first to probe into an association of linguistics that has so far been neglected: that with the study of the earth. The relations between linguistics and geology were intimate and manifold as both sciences were emerging in the 18th and 19th century. Highlighted in the contributions to this volume are biographical and institutional contacts, the join.

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