Type journalArticle Authors Annie Petit Publication title Revue de Synthèse Issue 106/108 Volume 103 Pages 215-243 Language French Keywords (neo)positivism 1 theory and philosophy of historiography linguistics/discursive turn semiotics/semantics Abstract His philological training led lexicographer and historian Emile Littré (1801-81) to research methods and a conception of history which differed significantly from the positivist school with which he identified himself.
