Podcast episode 8: Language as an institution – William Dwight Whitney

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History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences

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In this episode, we look first at the critiques of Schleicher’s “physcial” and Steinthal’s “psychological” theory of language put forward by the American linguist William Dwight Whitney. We then turn to Whitney’s own conception of language as a “human institution”…Read more ›