Course aims:

Enrolling the main theories of General Linguistic in a unitary and coherent structure
Theoretical introduction to the scientific study of linguistics, knowledge of the main aspects of the chronological evolution of linguistics
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Course Entry Requirements:

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Course contents:

1. The History of the linguistic concepts. Antiquity. Theories about language in Antiquity. Middle Ages. Realism and nominalism. Renaissance. The XVIIth and the XVIIIth century. Empiricism and rationalism. 2. Linguistics in the XIXth century: Linguistic concepts. Linguistic schools. Representatives. Comparatism and linguistic historicism: Rasmus Christian Rask; Franz Bopp; Jacob Grimm. The philosophy of language: W. Humboldt. The linguistic naturalism: August Schleicher; Max Friederich Műller. The linguistic psychologism: H. Steinthal; Al. Af. Potebnea. The Neogrammatics – Leipzig school: Hermann Paul; Hermann Osthoff; Karl Brugmann. The criticism of the linguistic psychologism: William Dwight Whitney; Michel Bréal; Georg Curtius; Hugo Schuchardt. 3. Linguistics in the XX century: linguistic concepts. Linguistic schools. Representatives. The linguistic antipozitivism: Benedetto Croce. The idealist school: Karl Vossler. The neolingvistic school: G. Isaia Ascoli, Giulio Bertoni, Mateo Bartoli. Modern linguistics: F. de Saussure, B. de Courtenay; Ch. Bally, Albert Sechehaye; A. Meillet, J. Vendryes; Fr. Boas; E. Sapir; L. Bloomfield; Zellig S. Harris, A. N. Chomsky. The structural linguistics: Serghei Karcevskij, Nikolai S. Trubeckoj, Roman Jakobson, André Martinet; Vigo Brondal, Hans Jörgen Uldall, Louis Hjelmslev; Leonard Bloomfield. Conclusions.

Teaching methods:

Lecture, conversation, exemplification, applications

Learning outcomes:

defining concepts, identifying and exemplification of the specific language of general linguistics explaining the changes produced in General Linguistics applying concepts of general linguistics

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

Combined oral and written examination to verify the quality and correctness of information assimilated. (50%+50%).

Recommended reading:

Benveniste, É., Probleme de lingvistică generală, Editura Polirom, Bucureşti, 2002, -.
Ionescu, E, Manual de lingvistică generală,, -, Bucureşti, 1997, -.
Irimia, D.,, Curs de lingvistică generală, -, Iaşi, 1986, -.
Jakobson, Roman, Essays de lingvuistique générale, -, Paris, -, -.
Saussure, F., Curs de lingvistică generală, Editura Polirom, Iaşi, 1998, -.