By Werner Hüllen
This attention-grabbing examine explores the so-called topical, i.e. non-alphabetical, word-lists which seemed among the beginnings of written tradition and 1700. a kind of early dictionary, those lists the influential paradigms of theology, philosophy, and typical background of the time, supplying us with facts on cultural heritage and linguistic improvement. Professor Hüllen attracts on many examples to supply an perception into this lexicographical culture.
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Above all, the system of semantic features is established by the general text topic48 (Lyons 1977, van Dijk 1980, Brown and Yule 1983). It gradually accumulates in the linear arrangement of the text, although there is a preconceived topical concept which selects this process of accumulation. The topic is often epitomized in a phrase, for example the title, but it can be too complex for this method. This gives certain satellite-like texts, like tables of contents, overviews, or abstracts, their importance.
He interprets the change from Wörter und Sachen to Wörter und Ideen as an extension of the onomasiological principle from the primacy of the objective to the primacy of the mental world. It is to be found in the early Saussure reception in which the structure of a language (langue) was understood very much in the same way in which Humboldt had defined the dependence of language on culture. Leo Weisgerber (1927) and Jost Trier (1931) developed their concepts of the word-field (Wortfeld)38 and of language as a mediating semiotic system (sprachliche Zwischenwelt).
The methods of fieldwork laid down for language atlases also derived linguistic insights from presupposed factual knowledge. This discussion in the first half of the twentieth century has been excellently covered by the Swiss linguist Bruno Quadri (1952). He interprets the change from Wörter und Sachen to Wörter und Ideen as an extension of the onomasiological principle from the primacy of the objective to the primacy of the mental world. It is to be found in the early Saussure reception in which the structure of a language (langue) was understood very much in the same way in which Humboldt had defined the dependence of language on culture.