Stephen Ullmann

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Stephen Ullmann (actually Ullmann István ; born July 31, 1914 in Budapest / Hungary ; † January 10, 1976 in London ) was a Hungarian linguist who carried out his research, especially in the field of semantics - the theory of meaning as a branch of linguistics - operated in England.

life and work

Ullmann received his doctorate in Budapest in 1936 and went to England in 1939. He was a professor in Glasgow, Leeds and from 1968 as the successor to TBW Reid in Oxford. He published "Grundzüge der Semantik" in 1967 and divides them into three parts: 1. le nom (sound sequence), 2. le sens (the meaning) and 3. la chose (the extra-linguistic object). He put these three semantic fields in relation to one another and proceeded similarly to Saussure , who also dealt with semantics. Saussure used different names, but the analyzes by Ullmann and Saussure are very similar.

Other works

  • The epic of the Finnish nation , London 1940
  • Words and their Use , New York 1951
  • The Principles of Semantics. A Linguistic Approach to Meaning , Glasgow / Oxford 1951
  • Précis de Sémantique française , Bern 1952
  • Style in the French Novel , Cambridge 1957
  • Semantics. An Introduction to the Science of Meaning , Oxford / New York 1962
  • Language and Style , Oxford 1964
  • Basic semantics. The meaning from a linguistic point of view , Berlin 1967
  • Meaning and Style. Collected Papers , Oxford / New York 1973

literature

  • Contemporary Authors New Revision Series vol. 4: 563 (1981)

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personal data
SURNAME Ullmann, Stephen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ullmann István (Hungarian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian linguist, semanticist
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1976
Place of death London