La linguistique et ses formes historiques d’organisation et de production, sous la direction de Didier Samain et Pierre-Yves Testenoire. Paris, SHESL (HEL Livres, 1) 2022, 336 p. ISBN 979-10-91587-16-7
DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6675029
Volume entièrement disponible en ligne sur le site de l’Éditeur.

Parmi les résultats documentaires et théoriques apportés par ces
contributions, il en est un, moins attendu et plus discret que d’autres.
Il a fait apparaître la diversité des formes de réflexivité et d’auto-
désignation. De manière générale, nous avons tendance à nous méfier
des phénomènes d’auto-référence lorsqu’il s’agit des organisations.
Non sans quelque raison. Les petites et grandes manœuvres des
individus et des acteurs, les réécritures plus ou moins intéressées du
passé, tous ces biais sont légion. Figures et disciplines ne naissent pas
du cerveau de Zeus, mais de la forge d’Héphaïstos. Il n’empêche. On
ne peut s’empêcher de penser que les métadiscours ne se réduisent
pas pour autant aux mécanismes qui les ont fait naître, et qui parfois
nous échappent. À la lecture des pages qui vont suivre, la nécessité
de les envisager sérieusement devient évidente. Leur signification
cognitive et anthropologique en histoire des sciences reste toutefois
à préciser.

Extrait de la préface de Didier Samain

With Saussure, beyond Saussure. Between linguistics and philosophy of language, ed. by Marina De Palo, Stefano Gensini. Münster, Nodus Publikationen, 2022, 170 p., ISBN 978-3-89323-027-3, € 43
Notice de l’Éditeur
Préface et table des matières

The centenary of the publication of CLG, which was celebrated in 2016, represented an important occasion for reviewing the dispersion and the influence of Saussurean thought in twentieth-century European linguistics and philosophy. Many scientific events in Geneva, Paris and Rome celebrated this anniversary, once again concentrating critical and theoretical reflection on this work which changed the orientation, not only of modern linguistics in the 1900s, but also of the whole gamut of human sciences, becoming the point of reference for struc-turalism and post-structuralism. The Laboratory of the History of Linguistic Ideas of the Department of Philosophy in the Sapienza University of Rome (Labsil) also contributed to organising a convention in Rome, in June of 2016, on the Roman school and Saussure’s reception (see Marina De Palo, Stefano Gensini (eds.), Saussure e la Scuola linguistica romana. Da Antonino Pagliaro a Tullio De Mauro. Roma: Carocci 2018) following dialogue between the Roman school and the Genevan school — two schools which, through the inter-pretative and philological work of Gödel and Engler on the Genevan side, and De Mauro on the Roman side, explored the complex and uncertain relationship which the CLG has with its handwritten sources. The present volume, setting out from the revival of the debate surrounding the Cours de linguistique générale (1916, 1922²), intends to offer reconsideration and rereadings of certain fundamental points in the light of the results of recent studies and of the knowledge acquired from the plurality of linguistic-philosophical traditions within which this work was received in the 1900s […].
In this varied tableau of essays, interwoven with a dynamic Humboldtian conception of language, the reader will glimpse throughout the golden thread of the speaking subject — a question often placed in the background of traditional structuralist approaches and revived in the present-day debate, above all in the field of the cognitive sciences.

Extrait de la préface des éditeurs

John E. Joseph, « The affective, the conceptual and the meaning of ‘life’ in the stylistics of Charles Bally», Language & Communication 86 (September 2022), p. 60-69.
Published online : 24 August 2022
DOI : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2022.05.006
Article disponible en open access à ce lien

Abstract

The work in stylistics of Charles Bally (1865–1947) attempts to analyse that subset of a language system in which meaning is not purely conceptual or intellectual, but has an affective, emotional dimension. It is not concerned with literary language, but with everyday language used in the service of ‘life’, a word which is central for Bally. This paper adds to the definitive study of Bally’s stylistics (Taylor 1981) by bringing in material which came to light after its publication, including Médina’s (1985) study of Bally’s reliance on the work of Henri Bergson, who reconfigured the affective-conceptual dyad and whose writings are the source, Médina shows, of Bally’s use of ‘life’. This paper also adduces more recently published documents on Bally’s intellectual and professional relationship with Ferdinand de Saussure, which figures prominently in Taylor’s (1981) account, and which can now be reassessed in a new light.