De l'émergence disciplinaire à la didactisation des savoirs linguistiques : le tournant des années 60 et ses suites

Jean-Louis Chiss and Christian Puech, From the emergence of linguistics as a subject to be taught to the didactization of linguistic knowledge: the turning-point of the sixties and its consequences The point here is to show how linguistics — and more specifically structural linguistics — gradually became a subject to be taught, namely a constituted disciplinary body with a given teaching content. From the standpoint of the French situation and its specificity, the article analyses some of the stages the transmission of linguistic knowledge went through at school and university level. Special reference is made to textbooks for beginners and a linguistic school has been chosen as an example: functionalism.Chiss Jean-Louis, Puech Christian. De l'émergence disciplinaire à la didactisation des savoirs linguistiques : le tournant des années 60 et ses suites. In: Langue française, n°117, 1998. La linguistique comme discipline en France, sous la direction de Jean-Louis Chiss et Christian Puech. pp. 6-21