La linguistique à la croisée des disciplines (Master S1/S3 Class)

Basic information

• Credits: 3
• Format: 2 hours weekly
• 2026-2027 instructors: Chloé Laplantine & Margherita Farina
• 2026-2027 schedule: 11:30-13:30, room 533
• Moodle page currently unavailable

Description

The course will analyze a variety of questions central to linguistics both from a diachronic and an epistemological perspective. The development of linguistic thinking will be examined in the light of its interactions with other phenomena (such as the evolution of writing systems and their different features, the birth and development of philological practices in Antiquity, the development of logic and philosophy), as well as other scientific disciplines (philology, mathematics, ethnology, sociology, poetics, natural sciences, cognitive sciences, computer sciences…).

Prerequisites

None.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

• Place a number of relevant moments in the history of linguistic theories within their broader historical and epistemological contexts.
• Establish meaningful connections between the methodologies and the production of knowledge proper to linguistics and to other disciplines over time.