Review: Giuseppe D’Ottavi et Pierre-Yves Testenoire (dir.), « Langages » 209 (1/2018), Le cours de linguistique. Formes, genèses et interprétations de notes d’auditeurs ISBN 9782200931612, URL: http://www.revues.armand-colin.com/lettres-langues/langages/langages-ndeg-209-12018

Review Langages 209 (1/2018). The number of Langages «Le cours de linguistique. Formes, genèses et interprétations de notes d’auditeurs» is devoted to a particular genre of documentation of the history of linguistic ideas: texts drawn from an oral situation, in particular the notes taken down by students who attend lectures. The scientific context is the France between the end of the 19th century and today: a well-identified tradition of linguistic studies, thus, is isolated. The volume explores the subject according to three principal aims: analysing the formation of linguistic knowledge; studying the genesis of the publication of a course; questioning about the concepts of linguistic school and linguistic tradition. It consists of the editors’ preface and 6 contributions, presenting a number of case-studies related to five great scholars (L. Havet, F. de Saussure, A. Meillet, E. Benveniste and A. Culioli) and different by perspective: Bergounioux gives attention to the didactic aspects of teaching linguistic disciplines; Sofía, Fenoglio, Ducard and Doquet focus on more specifically methodological aspects in the publication of notes; in the latter field Testenoire emphasises issues related to authorship.