Анотація до лекції 2
Lecture 2. Linguistic Ideas of Wilhelm von Humboldt
1. Life and Work of Wilhelm von Humboldt
2. “Humboldtian” Linguistics
3. The Influence of Humboldt’s Theories on the World Linguistics Development.
4. Empirical Linguistic Investigations
5. “Dual Process of Segmentation” in Humboldt’s Theory
6. “Inner Form” a Word
Annotation: The lecture aims at giving the most important facts of life and work of such a great linguist as Wilhelm von Humboldt, German man of extraordinary letters, close friend of the poets Goethe and Schiller, whose life’s work encompasses the areas of philosophy, literature, linguistics, anthropology, education, and political thought. Much attention is paid to his contributions to the formation of modern linguistics, semiotics, hermeneutics and philosophy of language. The linguistic principles of stadial conception of languages development are in the centre of discussion. Students should understand that for Humboldt and his followers thinking consists in segmenting its own process, thereby forming whole units out of certain portions of its activity, and in setting these formations separately in opposition to one another, collectively, however, as objects, in opposition to the thinking subject. In other words, in this process of segmentation not only different objects are created, but with it the very subject of this thinking activity constitutes itself.