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"Biographical historiography in Portraits of Linguists by Thomas A. Sebeok". The article deals with the compilation of biographies published in 1966 by Thomas A. Sebeok: Portraits of Linguists. A Biographical Source Book for the History of Western Linguistics, 1746-1963. This work is a pioneer in its field and includes 90 biographical writings about 72 linguists from the comparativism and structuralism schools. The paper studies the influence in narrative historiography of linguistics, one that draws on biographical sources (Sebeok 1966) and autobiographical sources (Davis and O'Cain 1980; Koerner 1990, 1998; Swiggers 1997; Brown and Law 2002; Ertler 2007- 2015; Timotin and Colceriu 2012; Laborda, Romera and Fernandez Planas 2014). The article outlines the canon established by Sebeok. The canonical account of Sebeok is characterized by a traditional corpus, with personal contributions of the editor and relevant reviews from biographers. The corpus is composed of male authors who work mainly in Central Europe and the United States. The article examines especially the biographies of R. Rask, O. Jespersen, K. and L. Spitzer Verner. This selection shows the difficulty and responsibility assumed by the historian to interpret the tradition of linguistics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Historiography and memory of linguistics in autobiographies of linguists". The paper discusses the autobiographical historiography of linguistics contributions. The autobiography is a source of the narrative aspect of historiography. In the paper a list of autobiographies of linguists is made (Davis & O'Cain 1980, Koerner 1991 y 1998, López Alonso & Séré 1992, Swiggers 1997, Brown & Law 2002, Timotin & Colceriu 2012, Laborda, Romera & Fernández Planas 2014) to consider their cognitive, literary and textual aspects. The article applies the theory as an analytical model of the drama and of the constituents of the story by Jerome Bruner. The study confirms the suitability of the autobiography to tell the life story of the author and to describe the landscape of contemporary linguistics. The study reveals the multifaceted value of writing I like literature, scientific document and source of social information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]