The linguistics wars [[electronic resource] /] / Randy Allen Harris

• Autore: Harris Randy Allen
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (369 p.)
• Disciplina: 410.904; 410/.904
• Soggetto topico: Generative grammar; Linguistics - History - 20th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; 1. Language, Thought, and the Linguistics Wars; 2. Linguistics; 3. The Chomskyan Revolution; 4. The Beauty of Deep Structure; 5. Generative Semantics 1: The Model; 6. Generative Semantics 2: The Heresy; 7. The Vicissitudes of War; 8. Generative Semantics 3: The Ethos; 9. Generative Semantics 4: The Collapse; 10. Whence and Whither; Notes; Works Cited; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: When it was first published in 1957, Noam Chomsky's Syntactic Structure seemed to be just a logical expansion of the reigning approach to linguistics. Soon, however, there was talk from Chomsky and his associates about plumbing mental structure; then there was a new phonology; and then there was a new set of goals for the field, cutting it off completely from its anthropological roots and hitching it to a new brand of psychology. Rapidly, all of Chomsky's ideas swept the field. While the entrenched linguists were not looking for a messiah, apparently many of their students were. There was a re
• Titolo autorizzato: The linguistics wars
• ISBN: 0-19-983906-9; 1-280-76075-3; 9786610760756; 0-19-802368-5; 0-19-534460-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784717703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II