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Research Interests for Julie A. Tetel

Research Interests:

Julie Tetel writes in the field of linguistic historiography, focusing on French, German, and American theories of language from the eighteenth-through the twentieth- centuries. She is the author of Linguistics in America 1769-1924: A Critical History (Routledge, 1990, paperback edition 1996). She is currently writing Observing Linguistics which will be finished in 2004. She was the Director of the Duke Univeristy-University of Bucharest, Romania Faculty EXchange. Between 1985 and 1997 she published sixteen historical romances with mass-market publishers. In 1997 she founded her own publishing company with two imprints: Generation Books (non-fiction) and Madeira Books (fiction).

Areas of Interest:

Linguistics & Rhetoric
American Literature
History of Linguistics
Biological Linguistics

Recent Publications
  1. with Tetel, JA; Carter, PM, Languages of the World. An Introduction through Culture and Cognition, in Wiley-Blackwell (2014), Wiley-Blackwell
  2. Tetel, JA, Linguistics and Evolution. A Developmental Systems Theory Approach (2013), Cambridge University Press [author's comments]
  3. Tetel, JA, Historiography’s contribution to theoretical linguistics, in Chomskyan Evolutions and Revolutions: Essays in Honor of E.F.K. Koerner, edited by Kibbee, D (January, 2010), pp. 443-469, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, The Netherlands [abs]
  4. Tetel, JA, Toward a history of American Linguistics, Language, vol. 86 no. 1 (Spring, 2010), Linguistics Society of America, Washington DC [abs]
  5. Tetel, JA, William Dwight Whitney in Perspective, Metascience (Winter, 2006)

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