Bally returned to Geneva and taught at a business school from 1893 on and moved to the Progymnasium, a grammar school, from 1913 to 1939. He also worked as PD at the University of Geneva from 1893 to 1913. From 1913 to 1939 he had a professorship for general linguistic and comparative Indo-European studies which he took over from Ferdinand de Saussure.
Besides his works about subjecthood in the French language he also wrote about the crisis in French language and language classes. He was active in interlinguistics, serving as a consultant to the research association that presented Interlingua in 1951. Today Charles Bally is regarded as the founding father of linguistic theories of style (stylistics) and much honored for his theories of phraseology.[1] In terms of modern stylistics he dealt with the expressive function of signs.
Bally was married three times: first to Valentine Leirens, followed by Irma Baptistine Doutre, who was sent into a mental institution in 1915, and finally to Alice Bellicot.
Amacker, René (1995), "Geneva School, after Saussure", in Koerner, E. F. K. & Asher, R. E. (eds.), Concise History of the Language Sciences, Oxford: Pergamon, pp. 239–243.
Esterhill, F., Interlingua Institute: A history, Interlingua Institute (2000).
Further reading
G. Redard, "Bibliographie chronologique des publications de Charles Bally", in Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure 36, 1982, 25–41
W. Hellmann, Charles Bally, 1988
S. Durrer, Introduction à la linguistique de Charles Bally, 1998
External links
"Charles Bally Papers". Odyssée (in French). Geneva: Bibliothèque de Genève - Département des manuscrits et des archives privées. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
