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Langages

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ15763214 ↗
Source-derived summary

Langages : Revue internationale des sciences du langage is a peer-reviewed academic journal of linguistics published by Armand Colin.

Founded in 1966 by R. Barthes, J. Dubois, A.-J. Greimas, B. Pottier, B. Quemada and N. Ruwet, the journal Langages makes available to a multidisciplinary scientific community, without theoretical or methodological exclusivity, the results of contemporary research carried out in psycholinguistics, automatic language processing, didactics, translation, etc.

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External links

"Langages". JSTOR.

"Langages". Armand Colin.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Langages” as journal. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1966—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Langages and journal can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as journal. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 21, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q15763214. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1966.

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This entry incorporates text from “Langages” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.