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Gunter Senft

Völkerkunde und Linguistik – Ein Plädoyer für interdisziplinäre Kooperation / Ethnology and linguistis – a plea for interdisciplinary cooperation

Starting with Hockett's famous statement on the relationship between linguistics and anthropology – “Linguistics without anthropology is sterile; anthropology without linguistics is blind” – this paper first discusses the historic perspective of the topic. This discussion starts with Herder, Humboldt and Schleiermacher and ends with the present debate on the interrelationship of anthropology and linguistics. Then some excellent examples of interdisciplinary projects within anthropological linguistics (or linguistic anthropology) are presented. And finally it is illustrated why Hockett is still right.

Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 0301-3294
Volume: 34, 10/2006
Pages: 87 - 104

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