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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789569703321

Autore

Barsky Robert F

Titolo

Zellig Harris : from American linguistics to socialist Zionism / / Robert F. Barsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011

ISBN

0-262-29447-8

1-283-11926-9

9786613119261

0-262-29590-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (372 p.)

Disciplina

410.92

Soggetti

Linguistics

Language and languages - Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: I.The Man -- 1.Origins -- 2.Avukah -- 3.Frame of Reference -- II.The Language Work -- 4.From Semitics to Structuralism -- 5.Structural Linguistics -- 6.Science, Math, and the Study of Language -- III.The Politics -- 7.From Avukah to Zionism -- 8.Toward a New Society -- 9.From Arab-Jewish Cooperation to Worker Self-Management.

Sommario/riassunto

The intersecting worlds of Zellig Harris, Noam Chomsky's intellectual and political mentor.