1.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN0016085

Autore

Schaffner, Kenneth F.

Titolo

Discovery and explanation in biology and medicine / Kenneth F. Schaffner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago, 1993

ISBN

02-267-3592-3

Descrizione fisica

XXVI, 617 p. ; 23 cm.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910953269003321

Titolo

Linguistics inside out : Roy Harris and his critics / / edited by George Wolf, Nigel Love

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c1997

ISBN

1-283-31242-5

9786613312426

90-272-7594-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (372 p.)

Collana

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, , 0304-0763 ; ; v. 148

Altri autori (Persone)

WolfGeorge <1950->

LoveNigel

Disciplina

410

Soggetti

Linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

LINGUISTICS INSIDE OUT ROY HARRIS AND HIS CRITICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Dedication; Preface; Contributors; Roy Harris: Publications 1956-1995; Prologue; 1 The



""Language Myth"" Myth: Or, Roy Harris's Red Herrings; 1. Introduction: Idols of the market; 2. Surrogationalism and nomenclaturism; 3. Telementation; 4. Conclusion: The ""Key to All Mythologies""; 2 The Language Muddle: Roy Harris and Generative Grammar; 1. The ""language myth""; 2. Telementation; 3. Fixed codes; 4. The socio-historical roots of formal linguistics

5. Alphabetic literacy and linguistic theory6. Generative grammar as a prescriptive enterprise; 7.Harris's empiricism; 8. Integrational linguistics; 9. Concluding remarks; 3 Telementation and Generative Linguistics; 1. Introduction; 2. The occult nature of the telementational thesis; 3. The Minimalist Programme and problems with PF; 3.1 The Minimalist Programme; 3.2 Type, token and telementation in PF; 3.3 Articulatory intentions, phonological ""events"" and PF as instructions; 3.4 Production, generation, sentence and utterance

3.5 Phonological derivations, ""externalisation"" and ""manifestation""4. Realism and ""linguistic"" behaviour in generative linguistics; 4 Phonography: Setting a Term to the Evolution of Writing; 5 A New Mentality; 6 Science and Significance: Making Sense of Wittgenstein's Ways of Seeing; 1.; 2.; 3.; 4.; 5.; 7 Rules and Algorithms: Wittgenstein on Language; A glimpse of biography; Critique of the formalist tendency; Descriptive and auxiliary formalisms; The role of ontologies; Tools and rules; Boundaries and ""agreements""; Wittgenstein and language cha; Breaking with the Tractatus

Nothing coerces usRules and the interpretation of Wittgenstein; Rides and practices; Grounding skills; The conduit metaphor; Saying as expressing; The last remnants of surrogationalism; Is there an ur-language; 8 Contextualizing ""Context"": From Malinowski to Machine Translation; 1. Introduction; 2. Malinowsk's ""context of situation"": new insight or bad science?; 3. Meaning for whom? Linguists' ""context"" / users' ""context""; Language Orienteering; Language Users and Language Analysis; 4. Users' meaning: the varying role of extralinguistic context; Mode of Representation

In-Group / Out-GroupDomain of Communication; Lexico-Grammatical Profile; Body Parts; Verbs of Motion; Number; Gender; Grammatical Subjects; 5. Culture, Context, and Machine Translation; The Problem of Translation; Computers and Translation; Cultural Challenges to Machine Translation; Politeness Indicators on Japanese Nouns: -san, o-, noun pairs; Politeness Indicators on Japanese Verbs: Plain, Humble, Polite; 6. Conclusions; 9 Is Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis an ""Integrational"" Account of Language?; 1. Different approaches, a shared orientation; Harrisian integrationism

Ethnomethodological conversation analysis

Sommario/riassunto

Roy Harris's thoroughgoing attack on the presuppositions underpinning the dominant traditions of Western thought about language, and his advocacy of a radically reconceived linguistics focused on the idea that the linguistic sign is contextually created and interpreted as a function of the meaningful integration of communicative behaviour, have made him one of the most controversial figures in the field today. In the essays in this volume Naomi S. Baron, Bob Borsley, Philip Carr, David Fleming, Rom Harré, Anthony Holiday, John E. Joseph, Frederick J. Newmeyer, David R. Olson, Trevor Pateman, J