Janus before the mirror: Albert Sechehaye (1870-1946), linguistic theorist facing the grammarian practitioner
The Abrege de grammaire francaise sur un plan constructif (1926) of Albert Sechehaye is a didactically oriented work closely tied up with the author's conceptions as a theoretical linguist; in this work Sechehaye exposes (his views on) the progressive structuring of the language material as it...
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| Published in | Documents pour l'histoire du francais langue etrangere ou seconde Vol. 52; no. Jun; pp. 11 - 41 |
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| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | French |
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01.06.2014
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| Summary: | The Abrege de grammaire francaise sur un plan constructif (1926) of Albert Sechehaye is a didactically oriented work closely tied up with the author's conceptions as a theoretical linguist; in this work Sechehaye exposes (his views on) the progressive structuring of the language material as it has to be gradually mastered by the pupil. Through the presentation of sentence types (phrases-types), which reflect the gradually increasing syntactic-discursive complexity and which are based on the operations of substitution and expansion the learner grasps the formative mechanism of a language and learns to construe the 'system of grammar'. The article offers an analysis of the theoretical conceptions of Sechehaye and their didactic implementation in relation to their close connection with Saussure's linguistics; the reception of Sechehaye's linguistic-didactic contribution is also studied. |
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| ISSN: | 0992-7654 |