Podcast episode 59: Anna Wierzbicka In this interview, we talk to Anna Wierzbicka about her life and research into semantics.

New episode out 🤩

This time, James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) talks to Anna Wierzbicka (ANU Canberra) about her life and her research on meaning and semantics.

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#OTD 211 years ago, Rudolf von Raumer (1815–1876) was born 🎂 A philologist and historical linguist, specialising in German phonology and dialectology, he actively participated in the 19th-century debates about reforming German orthography.

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Sto lat, dear Bronisław 🎉

Celebrate by listening to episode 19 of our podcast, in which we look at the central role the analysis of meaning played in British linguistics in the first half of the twentieth century.

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#OTD 142 years ago, Bronisław Malinowski (1884–1942) was born 🎉 He was a proponent of the functionalist approach of the London School, known for introducing the concept of phatic communion, the use of language to build social bonds rather than exchange information.

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#OTD 159 years ago, Holger Pedersen (1867–1953) was born 🥳 He was an Indo-Europeanist, specialising in Irish and Albanian, who formulated the so-called Pedersen’s Law and the ruki sound law. He was also a proponent of the Nostratic family.

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Historiografia Gramatical: norma e ideologia | Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto

Novedad: monográfico“Historiografia Gramatical: norma e ideologia” coord. por Vanessa Anachoreta, Sónia Duarte y Rogelio Ponce de León (Universidade do Porto)
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Manfred Bierwisch: Linguistics in Germany Carla Umbach (University of Cologne) Manfred Bierwisch at a talk by Ray Jackendoff, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, left Susan Olsen, Ilse Zimmermann, behind him Elisabeth Pankratz, 15.10.2018. Pho…

New blog post: a recently published autobiographical article by Manfred Bierwisch (1930–2024), completed after his passing by Carla Umbach and Manfred Krifka.

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Happy birthday, dear Leonard 🥳

Have a celebratory listen to episode 32 of our podcast, in which we discuss Bloomfield’s connections to the psychological school of behaviourism and the philosophical doctrines of logical positivism.

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#OTD 139 years ago, Leonard Bloomfield (1887–1949) was born 🎉 He was an expert in Algonquian and Austronesian languages and an American structuralist who co-founded the Linguistic Society of America (@lingsocam.bsky.social) in 1924 and served as its president in 1935.

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Cfp: SHESL Conference 2027 History of terminology – Diachronic terminologyThe emergence of a terminological conscienceness organized by Danielle Candel (SHESL / HTL), Pascaline Dury (CeRLA) & John Humbley (ALTAE) 28 – 29…

Conference alert 🚨

History of terminology – Diachronic terminology
The emergence of a terminological conscienceness

28–29 January 2027

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Podcast episode 58: Ryan Nefdt on linguistic relativity and AI In this interview, we talk to Ryan Nefdt about the light latest work in “artificial intelligence” can cast on questions of linguistic relativity.

New episode 🤩

This time, James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) talks with Ryan Nefdt (@ryannefdt.bsky.social) about how the work in "artificial intelligence" relates to questions of linguistic relativity and to the philosophy of linguistics.

🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2026/04/01/p...

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – March 2026 Miras, Grégory, Isabel Colón de Carvajal, Nathalie Blanc & Shona Whyte, ed. 2026. 60 Years of Applied Linguistics. Toward more engaged research. Amsterdam: Benjamins (AILA Applied Linguistics S…

As March 2026 comes to an end, it’s time to look back at some noteworthy publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences. In other words, our latest blog post is out 🤩

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The Kraken wakes: Tennyson and tales of Victorian science During unsettling times such as these, I tend to escape into the distant literary and scientific worlds of the 19th century, into what one might call, using a verse by the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyso…

For weekend readers, some science and poetry, some women in science and photography, all inspired by Richard Holmes's Tennyson biography #HistSci #Histlx
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Broche de oro del XV Congreso de la SEHL con Nerea Fernández de Gobeo @gobiline.bsky.social (UPV-EHU) miembro del proyecto #ContactPres (Generalitat Valenciana) que ha hablado sobre Ideas y actitudes sobre la enseñanza de la(s) lengua(s) en el “Renacimiento Vasco” (1876-1936)
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Último día del XV Congreso de la SEHL.
En la s29, la gran Gerda Hassler nos habla de El desarrollo del concepto de ‘analogía’ en las gramáticas europeas del s. XVIII y su influencia en la normalización del español
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Sesión de tarde en el XV Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Historiografía Lingüística. En la s29, Izaro Urra Feito (UPV-EHU) nos habla de “Las ideas de José Ariztimuño sobre las lenguas y su enseñanza en la revista Yakintza”
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#OTD 149 years ago, Wilhelm Doegen (1877–1967) was born 🥳 He was an specialist in phonetics and phonology and he invented the so-called Doegen Lautapparat in 1909 and recorded the speech and songs of prisoners of war in multiple languages during World War I.

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13th International Conference on Missionary Linguistics 13th International Conference on Missionary Linguistics -

Llamada a comunicaciones para el 13.º Congreso Internacional de Lingüística Misionera: Aportaciones a la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Lingüístico y Cultural Mundial
Universidad de Vigo (31.3 – 1.4.2027)
Universidad de Trás-os-Montes y Alto Douro, Vila Real (2–3.4.2027)
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Programme du prochain colloque de la SIHFLES les 28 et et 29 mai 2026 à Prague « Nationalismes et enseignement des langues : le cas du français langue étrangère en Europe et dans le monde (1780 – 1950)»
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#OTD 186 years ago, Georg von der Gabelentz (1840–1893) was born 🎂 A general linguist and Sinology scholar, he was in many ways a forerunner of structuralism. Among other things, he formulated a spiral model of language change, also known as the agglutinative theory.

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Podcast episode 57: Brigitte Nerlich In this interview, we talk to Brigitte Nerlich about her career in the history of linguistics and the public understanding of science

Brigitte Nerlich (@bnerlich.bsky.social) on our podcast 🤩

In episode 57, James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) talks with Brigitte Nerlich about her career in the history of linguistics and the public understanding of science.

🔗 hiphilangsci.net/2026/03/15/p...

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#OTD 177 years ago, Karl Brugmann (1849–1919) was born 🎂 An expert on Sanskrit and comparative Indo-European linguistics, he was one of the most prominent Neogrammarians, who argued that sound laws operate without exceptions. Brugmann’s Law is named after him.

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Se acaba de publicar la Bibliografía de la gramática escolar argentina (BIGEA) (1817-1922), un gran trabajo realizado por el equipo dirigido por G. Toscano y García y E. Lidgett en el q he tenido la suerte de participar
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#OTD 181 years ago, Jan Baudouin de Courtenay (1845–1929) was born 🎉 An expert in Slavic languages and a member of the Kazan linguistic school, he was one of the scholars responsible for the modern concept of the phoneme. He nearly became President of Poland in 1922.

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#OTD 135 years ago, Yevgeny D. Polivanov (1891–1938) was born 🎉 An orientalist, translator, and expert in Chinese, Japanese, Uzbek, and Dungan, he helped develop writing systems for previously unwritten languages of the Soviet Union. He was executed by the NKVD in 1938.

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HiPhiLangSci recommends: a celebratory stroll along Schlegelstraße in Berlin-Mitte on a sunny spring day 😇

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#OTD 254 years ago, Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829) was born 🥳 With the publication of "Ueber die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier" (1808), he became one of the founding figures of Indo-European studies. A street in Berlin is named after him (and his brother).

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#OTD 154 years ago, Cinie Louw (1872–1935) was born 🎉 She was a missionary, translator, and linguist active in present-day Zimbabwe. In her linguistic work, she specialised in the Shona language, particularly the Karanga variety.

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Foüan, Élisabeth de (1856). Petites causeries Sur la grammaire française. Paris: Dezobry, E. Magdaleine et Cie. BNF MFICHE M-14382. La imagen está tomada del trabajo de Wendy Ayres-Bennet en el libro Women in the History of Linguistics (2020) que está disponible en Researchgate.net/publication/350136869_Women_as_authors_audience_and_authorities_in_the_french_tradition

Mi compañera en @facmagisteri.bsky.social María Querol ha elaborado un PPT precioso titulado “Ellas” sobre #MujeresLingüistas para el 8M.
Incluye esta fantasía de diagrama floral q creo q gustará a @coffeeanddonatus.bsky.social y a @cysouw.bsky.social
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Exposición “El diccionario que fundó una cultura: Diccionario de Autoridades (1726-2026)” comisariada por Águeda Moreno Moreno en la Universidad de Jaén
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