From Whitney to Chomsky [[electronic resource] ] : essays in the history of American linguistics / / John E. Joseph
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| Autore: |
Joseph John Earl
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| Titolo: |
From Whitney to Chomsky [[electronic resource] ] : essays in the history of American linguistics / / John E. Joseph
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| Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub., c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (242 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 410/.973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Linguistics - United States - History |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-222) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | FROM WHITNEY TO CHOMSKY: ESSAYS IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN LINGUISTICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Dedication; Acknowledgements; CHAPTER 1. THE MULTIPLE AMBIGUITIES OF AMERICAN LINGUISTIC IDENTITY; CHAPTER 2. THE AMERICAN WHITNEY' AND HIS EUROPEAN HERITAGES AND LEGACIES; CHAPTER 3. 20TH-CENTURY LINGUISTICS IN AMERICA AND EUROPE; CHAPTER 4. THE SOURCES OF THE 'SAPIR-WHORF HYPOTHESIS'; CHAPTER 5. THE ORIGINS OF AMERICAN SOCIOLINGUISTICS; CHAPTER 6. BLOOMFIELD'S AND CHOMSKY'S READINGS OF THE COURS DE LINGUISTIQUE GÉNÉRALE |
| CHAPTER 7. HOW STRUCTURALIST WAS 'AMERICAN STRUCTURALISM'?CHAPTER 8. HOW BEHAVIOURIST WAS VERBAL BEHAVIOR?; CHAPTER 9. THE POPULAR (MIS)INTERPRETATIONS OF WHORF AND CHOMSKY: WHAT THEY HAD IN COMMON, AND WHY THEY HAD TO HAPPEN; REFERENCES; INDEX | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | What is 'American' about American linguistics? Is Jakobson, who spent half his life in America, part of it? What became of Whitney's genuinely American conception of language as a democracy? And how did developments in 20th-century American linguistics relate to broader cultural trends?This book brings together 15 years of research by John E. Joseph, including his discovery of the meeting between Whitney and Saussure, his ground-breaking work on the origins of the 'Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis' and of American sociolinguistics, and his seminal examination of Bloomfield and Chomsky as readers of Saus |
| Titolo autorizzato: | From Whitney to Chomsky |
| ISBN: | 1-283-31214-X |
| 9786613312143 | |
| 90-272-7537-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910781722103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. : Series III, . -Studies in the history of the language sciences ; ; v. 103.