1. Taalkunde: een vloot in vele richtingen
- Author
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de Clercq, Karen, Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (LLF UMR7110), Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and De Clercq, Karen
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[SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics ,[SHS.LANGUE] Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics - Abstract
International audience; In this reply to Van de Velde and van der Horst’s paper, I argue that the interest of other scientific domains in linguistics does not betray acrisis; nor does it necessarily indicate a transitional phase or revolution leading to scientific maturity. Rather, I argue that the current situationis a sign of scientific maturity, doing justice to the intrinsically multidimensional nature of the object of study: Language. The perception or experience of a crisis arises only as a consequence of the desire to define Linguistics too narrowly.
- Published
- 2021