Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill 1980
  • M.A., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 1975
  • B.A., Duke University 1972
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, Slavic & Eurasian Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1999 - 2019
  • Professor in the Department of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2014 - 2019
  • Professor of Linguistics, Linguistics, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2014 - 2019
  • Associate Professor of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1996 - 2014
  • Director, Linguistics Program, Linguistics, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2006 - 2009
  • Assistant Professor, Cultural Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1993 - 1998
  • Assistant Professor, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1990 - 1996
  • Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1993 - 1994
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1987 - 1990
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • FEB 15, 2016

    Salon

    Julie Tetel Andresen: Virgins and heroes -- it took a while, but romance novels finally learned that no means no

  • MAY 20, 2015

    Duke Today

    Julie Tetel Andresen on Vanishing Languages
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  Awards & Honors

  • Traditional Fulbright Scholarship. Council for International Exchange of Scholars. 2005
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Travel Support for International Symposium on Autopoiesis awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1997 - 1998
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Tetel, J. A., and Phillip M. Carter. Languages of the World. An Introduction through Culture and Cognition. Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
    • Tetel, J. A. Linguistics and Evolution. A Developmental Systems Theory Approach. Cambridge University Press, 2013.
    • Tetel, J. A. Linguistics in America 1769-1924: A Critical History. Routledge; paperback edition, December, 1995, 1990.

  • Academic Articles

    • Tetel, J. A. “Toward a history of American Linguistics.” Language 86 (2010).
    • Tetel, J. A. “William Dwight Whitney in Perspective.” Metascience, 2006.
    • Tetel, J. A. “Postmodern Identity (Crisis): Confessions of a Linguistic Historiographer and Romance Writer,” 1998.
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    • Tetel, J. A. “L’ecole americaine.” Edited by S. Auroux. Histoire Des Idees Linguistiques 3 (1998).
    • Tetel, J. A. “The Contemporary Linguistic Meets the Postmodernist.” Beitrage Zur Geschichte Der Sprachwissenschaft 2 (1992): 213–23.
    • Tetel, J. A. “The Behaviorist Turn in Recent Theories about Language.” Behavior and Philosophy 20 (1992): 1–19.
    • Tetel, J. A. “On Genetic Encoding and Communication.” Language and Communication 11 (1991): 29–32.
    • Tetel, J. A. “Skinner and Chomsky Thirty Years Later.” Historiographia Linguistica 17 (1990): 145–65.
    • Tetel, J. A. “Review of G.A. Wells’s The Origins of Language. Aspects of the Discussion from Condillac to Wundt (1987).” Historiographia Linguistica XVII (1990): 411–17.
    • Tetel, J. A. “The Ideologues, Condillac and the Politics of Sign Theory.” Semiotica 72 (1988): 271–90.
    • Tetel, J. A. “Review of P. Friedrich’s The Language Parallax. Linguistic Relativism and Poetic Indeterminacy (1986).” Language in Society 17 (1988): 600–604.
    • Tetel, J. A. “Review of Tractatus philosophico-philologicus de methodo recte tractandi linguas exoticas.” 1984 Latin/German Ed. C.F. Seidelmann (1724), Language in Society 13 (1987): 111–16.
    • Tetel, J. A. “Why Do We Do Linguistic Historiography?” Semiotica 56 (1985): 357–70.
    • Tetel, J. A. “Les langues amerindiennes, le comparatisme et les etudes franco-americaines.” Amerindia 6 (1984): 107–25.
    • Tetel, J. A. “Arbitraire et Contingence in the Semiotics of the Eighteenth Century.” Semiotica 49 (1984): 361–80.
    • Tetel, J. A. “Signs and Systems in Condillac and Saussure.” Semiotica 44 (1983): 259–81.
    • Tetel, J. A. “Linguistic Metaphors in Charles de Brosses’ Traite of 1765 and the History Linguistics.” Linguisticae Investigationes I (1981): 1–25.
    • Tetel, J. A., and M. Tsiapera. “From Saussure to Chomsky: Linguistics and the Human Sciences.” Innovations in Linguistics Education 1 (1980): 3–23.
    • Tetel, J. A. “Francois Thurot and the First History of Grammar.” Historiographia Linguistica V (1978): 45–57.

  • Book Sections

    • Tetel, J. A. “Historiography’s contribution to theoretical linguistics.” In Chomskyan Evolutions and Revolutions: Essays in Honor of E.F.K. Koerner, edited by Douglas Kibbee, 443–69. John Benjamins, 2010.
    • Tetel, J. A. “Pragmatism, Behaviorism, and the Evolutionary Script.” In C. S. Peirce Papers, 1998.
    • Tetel, J. A. “Whitney und Bloomfield: Abweichungen und Ubereinstimmungen.” In History and Historiography of Linguistics, edited by H. Niederehe and K. Koerner, 807–19. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1990.
    • Tetel, J. A. “Historiographic Observations on a Current Issue in American Linguistics.” In Papers in the History of Linguistics, edited by H. Aarsleff, H. Niederehe, L. G. Kelly, and Amsterdam John Benjamins, 1987.
    • Tetel, J. A. “Images des langues americaines au XVIIIe siecle.” In L’homme Des Lumieres et La Decouverte de l’autre, edited by P. Gossiaux and D. Droixhe, 135–45. University of Brussels, 1985.
    • Tetel, J. A. “Debris et histoire dans la theorie linguistique au XVIII siecle.” In Materiaux Pour Une Histoire Des Theories Linguistiques, edited by S. Auroux, M. Glatigny, and A. Joly, 379–87. Presses Universitaires de Lille, 1984.
    • Tetel, J. A. “Langage naturel et artifice linguistique.” In Condillac et Les Problemes Du Langage, Ed. J. Sgard, 275-88. Geneva: Slatkine, 1982.
    • Tetel, J. A. “From Condillac to Condorcet: The Algebra of History.” In Studies in the History of Linguistics 20, edited by E. F. K. Koerner, 189–98. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1980.

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