Linguistics. Free. Dr. Susan Blackmore. Phenomenology of Perception. Appointed Professor at the College de France in 1952, Maurice Merleau-Ponty was a highly esteemed professional philosopher because of his technical works in phenomenology and psychology.
He was also an activist commentator on the significant cultural and political events of his time, as well as a collaborator with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in the founding and editing of Les Temps Modernes in Paris immediately after World War II. Besides being influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty assimilated the contributions of experimental philosophy and Gestalt psychology to focus on perception and behavior. His work "The Structure of Behavior," although centering on the body, presented an interpretation of the distinctions among the mental, the vital (biological), and the physical that ruled out the reductionist inclinations of behaviorism. Glossary of Linguistic Terms (Spanish) Linguistics: a brief history. A brief history of twentieth-century linguistics.
An introduction to the different ways that language can be studied, and the contributions of Saussure and Jakobson in context. Introduction Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913)