I knew almost nothing about Robert de Beaugrande until today. He was just a name related to different linguistic concepts in a book of
Análisis del discurso that I studied a couple of years ago. Today I came across
this post in
Vanity Fea blog that led me to browse through
Beaugrande's website. The site collects many of this linguist's works and I'm sure it can allow the reader to discover lots of interesting studies and reflections on language.
Just to illustrate this post, I have chosen the three quotations he included in his introduction to
A Friendly Grammar of English:
Grammarians would perhaps differ less, if they read more.-- Goold Brown, 1851
As the grammarians […] began quarrelling, they lost the power of discovering.-- Charles Kingsley, 1854
It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. -- Sherlock Holmes, 1892
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