Linguistic Indies. European reception of non-European languages, development and circulation of linguistic knowledge (16th-19th centuries) – INDESLING

The goal of the research program "Linguistic Indies" is to use the approach of the history of knowledge for the study of a field that has remained largely outside its scope until now: languages and linguistic knowledge. An international and multidisciplinary team, bringing together historians, linguists and anthropologists, will offer a new perspective on how non-European languages have been perceived, received in various places of knowledge and integrated into different forms of linguistic knowledge that reconfigure them. These languages will thus be considered throughout their itineraries, from the fields where they are collected - in Asia, Africa or America - to the works of European philologists, humanists and linguists, using them, passing through the printing workshops where they are manipulated and shaped by "orientalist" typographers.