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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781852903321

Autore

Itkonen Esa

Titolo

Grammatical theory and metascience [[electronic resource] ] : a critical investigation into the methodological and philosophical foundations of "autonomous" linguistics / / Esa Itkonen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 1978

ISBN

1-283-31446-0

9786613314468

90-272-8139-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (368 p.)

Collana

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science : Series 4, Current issues in linguistic theory ; ; v. 5

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general

Linguistics - Methodology

Language and languages - Philosophy

Linguistics - History - 20th century

Positivism

Hermeneutics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Second revised edition of ... 1974 dissertation Linguistics and metascience."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

GRAMMATICAL THEORY AND METASCIENCE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Preface; Table of contents; 1.0. THE IDEA OF 'POSITIVISM'; 1.1. The Data of Positivist Science;  the Definition of 'Empirical'; 1.2. Explanation, Prediction, and Testing; 1.3. Comparison with Peirce's Logic of Science; 1.4. Theory and Observation; 1.5. Ontology; 1.6. Concluding Remarks; 2.0. THE IDEA OF 'HERMENEUTICS'; 2.1. Psychology; 2.2. Sociology; 2.3. Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy; 2.4. Sociology of Knowledge; 2.5. Philosophy; 2.6. Logic; 2.7. Concluding Remarks

3.0. 20TH-CENTURY LINGUISTIC THEORIES: A BRIEF SURVEY 3.1. Saussure; 3.2. Hjelmslev; 3.3. Sapir; 3.4. Bloomfield; 3.5. Harris; 3.6. Transformational Grammar; 3.7. Some Recent Developments in Linguistic Theory; 3.8. Conclusion; 4.0. PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS



OF THE CONCEPT OF LANGUAGE; 4.1. Characterisation of the Traditionist Epistemology; 4.2. Refutation of the Traditionist Epistemology; 4.2.1. The Axiomaticity of the Concepts of Person and Thing; 4.2.2. Mind, Behaviour, and Environment; 4.2.3. Characterisation of Mental Phenomena: the Notion of 'Pattern'

4.2.4. General Characteristics of the Conceptual Distinctions Employed in the Present Study 4.2.5. The Impossibility of Private Languages; 4.3. Implications for Linguistic Theory; 4.3.1 . Psycholinguistics; 4.3.2. Theory of Grammar; 5.0. THE CONCEPT OF LANGUAGE; 5.1. Ontology: Rules of Language as Constituted by 'Common Knowledge '; 5.2. Epistemology: the Distinction between Language and Linguistic Intuition; 5.3. Rules of Language and Certainty; 5.4. Rules of Language and Social Control; 6.0. THE BASIS OF THE NONEMPIRICAL NATURE OF GRAMMAR

6.1. The Difference Between Rule-Sentences and Empirical Hypotheses 6.2. Examples of Rules and Rule-Sentences; 6.3. Two Different Types of Rule-Sentence; 7.0. THE ΙΝELIMIΝΑΒI LΙΤΥ OF LINGUISTIC NORMATIVITY; 7.1. A Synchronic Grammar Does not Investigate Spatiotemporal Utterances, but Correct Sentences; 7.2. Grammatical Concepts Are not Comparable to Theoretical Concepts of Natural Science; 7.3 Rules Ave not Regularities of Non-Normative Actions; 7.4. Grammatical Descriptions Cannot Be Replaced by Psycholinguists'c and/or Socio linguistic Descriptions

7.5. The Position of Transformational Grammar vis-à-vis Linguistic Normativity 8.0. LANGUAGE AND GRAMMAR; 8.1. The Basis of the Difference between Natural Science and Human Science: Observer's Knowledge vs. Agent's Knowledge; 8.2. The Two-Level Nature of the Human Sciences : Atheoretical vs. Theoretical; 8.3. The Two-Level Nature of Grammar; 8.4. The Ontological Reality of Grammatical Descriptions; 9.0. THE METHODOLOGY OF GRAMMAR; 9.1. General Remarks; 9.2. Explanation and Prediction; 9.3. Testing; 9.4. Universal Linguistic Theory

9.5. Appendix: Examples Taken from the Transformationalist Literature

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, the author analyses the nature of the science of grammar. After presenting some methodological and historical background, he sets forth a theory of language and of grammar, showing that the science of grammar is not an empirical, but a normative science, comparable to logic and philosophy, characterized by the use of the method of explication.