With its 60 articles on some 200 terms, the dictionary provides a description of the individual concepts in which 17^th and 18^th century thinking on language was represented in texts. Account is taken not only of the synchronic perspective and the continuation of tradition, but also of the epochal dynamics which made it possible for 17^th and 18^th century thinking on language to provide possible conceptualisations for succeeding ages.

Gerda Haßler  and Cordula Neis, University of Potsdam, Germany.