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Abstract
In the early 1920s, the Dutch linguist Jacques van Ginneken S. J. (1877–1945) was involved in Significs, an
idealistic-linguistic movement. He joined the group despite his objections against language reform, which was a central signific
goal. The curious combination of Van Ginneken’s considerable impact on the movement and the tensions between this Jesuit linguist
and his co-significians, brilliant intellectuals and social idealists, calls for further analysis. In this article, Van Ginneken’s
contribution to Significs and his complicated role in the movement will be discussed in some detail. Special attention will be
paid to the position of Van Ginneken and the leading significians in the contemporary multi-faceted transition from linguistic
psychologism to linguistic anti-psychologism. Both parties adopted a prominently psychologistic program, which entailed some
shared focuses of interest. However, they combined this with very diverse anti-psychologistic elements, which widened the gap
between them.
期刊介绍:
Historiographia Linguistica (HL) serves the ever growing community of scholars interested in the history of the sciences concerned with language such as linguistics, philology, anthropology, sociology, pedagogy, psychology, neurology, and other disciplines. Central objectives of HL are the critical presentation of the origin and development of particular ideas, concepts, methods, schools of thought or trends, and the discussion of the methodological and philosophical foundations of a historiography of the language sciences, including its relationship with the history and philosophy of science. HL is published in 3 issues per year of about 450 pages altogether.