The Rise of General Linguistics as an Academic Discipline: Georg von der Gabelentz as a Co-Founder

Elffers, Els

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In defense of the wrongly convicted—Ernst Börschmann’s Chinesische Architektur and the controversial synchrony of the Chinese architecture survey

Harrer

2021

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering

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Writing the architecture survey remains one of the biggest challenges in the field. Nineteenthand twentieth-century Western scholars usually followed a synchronic approach (literally "withtime") and described Chinese architecture without reference to its development and evolution over time. Although synchrony (attention to a particular moment in time) is not incorrect in principle, it is all too often attached with a negative connotation. A possible reason is that Liang Sicheng, and the generations after him, have understood all facets of synchrony as expression of the old dichotic worldview that once glorified Europe and deprived Asia of its history (nonhistorical timelessness) as formulated by the German philosophers Hegel and Herder and codified in Fletcher's and Fergusson's authoritative textbooks. Challenging the previous misconception of the generalization of synchronic textbooks, the paper attempts to examine the multiple facets of synchrony and identify the writing style of Börschmann's Chinesische Architektur, the prime example of the German-language survey on Chinese Architecture. In doing so, the paper hopefully can provide basis and arguments in defense of the work, presenting a reconciliation to the biased, subjective presentation of Chinese architecture once afflicted with prejudices and misapprehensions. The paper values Börschmann's Chinesische Architektur as a distinguished work different from other synchronic writings through its pioneering, value-neutral and formal approach.

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In defense of the wrongly convicted—Ernst Börschmann’s Chinesische Architektur and the controversial synchrony of the Chinese architecture survey

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2021

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering

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The Limits of Structuralism

2023

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Based around seven primary texts spanning 130 years, this volume explores the conceptual boundaries of structuralism, a scholarly movement and associated body of doctrines foundational to modern linguistics and many other humanities and social sciences. Each chapter in the volume presents a classic—and yet today underappreciated—text that addresses questions crucial to the evolution of structuralism. The texts are made accessible to present-day English-speaking readers through translation and extensive critical notes. Each text is introduced by an original essay placing it in its intellectual and historical context and outlining the insights it contains. These essays reveal the complex genealogy of our ideas and enrich our understanding of their contemporary form and use.

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The Rise of General Linguistics as an Academic Discipline: Georg von der Gabelentz as a Co-Founder

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In defense of the wrongly convicted—Ernst Börschmann’s Chinesische Architektur and the controversial synchrony of the Chinese architecture survey

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