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Tullio De Mauro dalla linguistica alla filosofia del linguaggio

Tullio De Mauro, a pupil of the well-known glottologist Antonino Pagliaro, had an importanti role in the histiry not only of Italian linguistics, but also of the philosophy of langage, First official professor of the discipline, he tried to give a theoretical answer to the questoions left open by the researchers of the 1940a and 1950s on the social component of language, on the interpretation to be given of Saussure's thought, on the function of semantics in a semeiological perspective.

Review of: "Hermann Paul’s Principles of Language History Revisited. Translations and Reflections", eds. Peter Auer and Robert W. Murray, with contributions by Peter Auer, David Fertig, Paul J. Hopper, Robert W. Murray. Berlin - Boston: de Gruyter, 2

This paper reviews a recent book consisting in a new translation of some chapters of Paul’s Prinzipien der Sprachgeschichte and some critical studies commenting and comparing the theories advanced by Paul with today’s linguistic theories. One of the aims of the paper, besides illustrating the merits of this beautiful volume, is to widen the comparison also to the less known general theories advanced by Italian linguists.

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