L’esprit de celui qui parle

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_3767
dc.contributor.author	Heinrich Patrick
dc.title	L’esprit de celui qui parle. Wilhelm von Humboldt on Japanese and its Speakers
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	Unbeknownst to most, Humboldt studied also Japanese in order to better grasp universal aspects of language. Humboldt’s interest in Japanese is based on his teleological view of language. According to Humboldt, language is the expression of a nation’s worldview and is, over time, subject to development and refinement. Japanese served Humboldt as an example to step back in time, so to speak, and he attempts to gain new insights into the origin of language by studying selected aspects of the Japanese language. While deeply original in his analysis, Humboldt falls victim to the Eurocentric bias of his approach. He uncritically perceives European languages as a yardstick to assess and interpret non-European languages.
dc.relation.ispartof	Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies
dc.relation.ispartof	Linguistics and Language Education
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-07-03
dc.dateAccepted	2020-05-14
dc.dateSubmitted	2020-02-21
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-429-5/lesprit-de-celui-qui-parle/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-428-8/009
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8976
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9395
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-429-5
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-428-8
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Adjectives
dc.subject	Adjectives
dc.subject	Kokugaku philology
dc.subject	Kokugaku philology
dc.subject	Late Middle Japanese
dc.subject	Late Middle Japanese
dc.subject	Linguistic relativity
dc.subject	Linguistic relativity
dc.subject	Personal pronouns
dc.subject	Personal pronouns
dc.subject	Worldview
dc.subject	Worldview

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L’esprit de celui qui parle

Wilhelm von Humboldt on Japanese and its Speakers

Patrick Heinrich Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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Unbeknownst to most, Humboldt studied also Japanese in order to better grasp universal aspects of language. Humboldt’s interest in Japanese is based on his teleological view of language. According to Humboldt, language is the expression of a nation’s worldview and is, over time, subject to development and refinement. Japanese served Humboldt as an example to step back in time, so to speak, and he attempts to gain new insights into the origin of language by studying selected aspects of the Japanese language. While deeply original in his analysis, Humboldt falls victim to the Eurocentric bias of his approach. He uncritically perceives European languages as a yardstick to assess and interpret non-European languages.

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July 3, 2020

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May 14, 2020

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Feb. 21, 2020

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978-88-6969-429-5

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978-88-6969-428-8

Keywords: Kokugaku philology • Late Middle Japanese • Adjectives • Linguistic relativity • Worldview • Personal pronouns

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