Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2010
Abstract
The article discusses the issue of perspectiveness in linguistic historiography. The main question is how does the historiographical perspective change the description of a given historical epoche.
It is demonstrated on three different descriptions of an important period of the Czech linguistics, or more precisely of the Czech thinking about language culture, which is delimitated by the works of Jan Gebauer, Josef Zubatý and Václav Ertl. Each of these descriptions is an example of one distinctive type of historiographical perspective and each is metahistoriographically analyzed in the second part of the article.
The views of philosophers Stephen Toulmin and T. S.
Kuhn are introduced and interpreted for these purposes.