TY - BOOK ID - 17754074 TI - Untersuchungen über die Grundfragen des Sprachlebens AU - Wegener, Philipp AU - Koerner, E F K AU - Knobloch, Clemens PY - 1991 SN - 9027218943 9786613328205 1283328208 9027277869 9789027277862 9789027218940 9781283328203 6613328200 PB - Amsterdam Philadelphia J. Benjamins Pub. Co. DB - UniCat KW - Language and languages KW - Philosophy. KW - -Foreign languages KW - Languages KW - Anthropology KW - Communication KW - Ethnology KW - Information theory KW - Meaning (Psychology) KW - Philology KW - Linguistics KW - Philosophy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17754074 AB - Newly edited by Konrad Koerner (University of Ottawa), with an introduction by Clemens Knobloch (Universitat Siegen)The importance of Wegener's Untersuchungen uber die Grundfragen des Sprachlebens can only be compared to that of Karl Buhler's Sprachtheorie. Even now, however, Wegener's work remains virtually unknown to the English speaking world. Wegener's main work was published in 1885. It has its origin in two lectures given in 1883 and 1884 at school teacher meetings held in the Magdeburg area and it still recalls those original occasions and maintains much of the oral style. Part of the v ER -