Words and things
Words and Things is a representative field of research for language and subject research, which presented its results for the first time in a cultural-historical journal of the same name ( Heidelberg 1909 ff.).
She originally criticized the “atomism” of the young grammarians, which was entirely focused on the sounds, and wanted to integrate linguistics into the “whole” of cultural studies . As a result, she dealt with the investigation of the mutual relationship between words and the objects and facts they designate. The "words-and-thing" movement was linked to the linguists Rudolf Meringer , Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke and Hugo Schuchardt , along with others .
Typical results of this research direction are the Language Atlas of German-speaking Switzerland (SDS) and - the name says it all - the Language and Subject Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland (AIS).
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- R. Meringer, words and things. IF 17, 1904/05.
- H. Schuchardt, Things and Words. Anthropos 7, 1912.
- Metzler Lexicon Language, Articles, Words and Things .
- Peter Ernst: German Linguistics. Vienna 2008.