Evaluating Cartesian Linguistics

Evaluating Cartesian Linguistics PDF Author: Christina Behme
Publisher: Potsdam Linguistic Investigations / Potsdamer Linguistische Untersuchungen / Recherches Linguistiques à Potsdam
ISBN: 9783631645512
Category : Cartesian linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The book evaluates Noam Chomsky's contributions to linguistics and focuses on the historic justification for Cartesian Linguistics, the evolution of Chomsky's theorizing, empirical language acquisition work, and computational modeling of language learning. It is shown that calling Chomsky's linguistic Cartesian cannot be historically justified.

Evaluating Cartesian Linguistics

Evaluating Cartesian Linguistics PDF Author: Christina Behme
Publisher: Potsdam Linguistic Investigations / Potsdamer Linguistische Untersuchungen / Recherches Linguistiques à Potsdam
ISBN: 9783631645512
Category : Cartesian linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The book evaluates Noam Chomsky's contributions to linguistics and focuses on the historic justification for Cartesian Linguistics, the evolution of Chomsky's theorizing, empirical language acquisition work, and computational modeling of language learning. It is shown that calling Chomsky's linguistic Cartesian cannot be historically justified.

The Linguistics Wars

The Linguistics Wars PDF Author: Randy Allen Harris
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019974033X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 569

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"This book chronicles the history of linguistics from the 1950s rise of Noam Chomsky's Transformational Grammar, in alliance with cognitive psychology and Artificial Intelligence, to the current day. It centers on a highly consequential dispute at a key moment of that rise, the relative importance of structure and meaning. The dispute marks a rupture between what looked to be an approaching Chomskyan hegemony in theory and a flowering of alternate approaches that complement but do not replace his approach, as well as some that advance it in various ways. The rupture was between the theory of Generative Semantics, pushing to include more and more meaning into linguistic theory, and Interpretive Semantics, which resisted that push, putting more and more focus on linguistic structure. But in many ways the dispute can be reduced to George Lakoff, the most prominent voice on the more-meaning side, and Noam Chomsky on the more-structure side. Chomsky is a big personality, quiet and understated but always gesturing at monumental and revolutionary implications for his ideas, never failing to mobilize great numbers of linguists, often with large contingents of psychologists, philosophers, computer scientists, or biologists sharing the enthusiasm as well. Lakoff is also big personality, anything but quiet or understated, equally comfortable gesturing at grand revolutions. So, personalities are central to the dispute and its aftermath, alongside the theories, the data, and the technical developments, with other social currents playing various additional roles, from military and educational funding to the counter-culture movement of the 1960s to the growth of computational technologies, and all of these factors show up in the chronicle, along with a cast of other remarkable and influential characters. Noam Chomsky is unquestionably the most influential linguist of the twentieth century-many people claim of any century-whose work and personal imprint remains powerfully relevant today, so the book ends by an analysis of Chomsky's influence and legacy"--

Cartesian Linguistics

Cartesian Linguistics PDF Author: John Philip McKelvey
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Languages : en
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Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky PDF Author: Carlos Peregrín Otero
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415106931
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Cartesian Linguistics

Cartesian Linguistics PDF Author: Christina Behme
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Cartesian Linguistics

Cartesian Linguistics PDF Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139476661
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 159

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In this extraordinarily original and profound work, Noam Chomsky discusses themes in the study of language and mind since the end of the sixteenth century in order to explain the motivations and methods that underlie his work in linguistics, the science of mind, and even politics. This edition includes a new and specially written introduction by James McGilvray, contextualising the work for the twenty-first century. It has been made more accessible to a larger audience; all the French and German in the original edition has been translated, and the notes and bibliography have been brought up to date. The relationship between the original edition (published in 1966) and contemporary biolinguistic work is also explained. This challenging volume is an important contribution to the study of language and mind, and to the history of these studies since the end of the sixteenth century.

History of Linguistics 2017

History of Linguistics 2017 PDF Author: Émilie Aussant
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 902726127X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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The present book is a selection of papers from the 14th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (Paris 2017). The volume is divided thematically into three parts: I. Notions and categories, II. Representations and receptions, III. Learning, codification and the linguistic practices of social actors. The first part is especially concerned with data not easily handled by extant traditions of linguistic analysis, and with constructs and perspectives which proved difficult to establish in the linguist’s descriptive apparatus. Part II groups six studies dealing with alternative representations of linguistic data, and matters of interpretation and reception regarding the work of three important linguists (Saussure, Jespersen, Chomsky). The scope of part III embraces social and pedagogical practices as well as the involvement of linguists in questions of national identity.

Evaluation of Theories on Child Grammars

Evaluation of Theories on Child Grammars PDF Author: Ton van der Geest
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110802031
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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The Historiography of Generative Linguistics

The Historiography of Generative Linguistics PDF Author: András Kertész
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN: 3823300687
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 582

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Although the past decades have seen a great diversity of approaches to the history of generative linguistics, there has been no systematic analysis of the state of the art. The aim of the book is to fill this gap. Part I provides an unbiased, balanced and impartial overview of numerous approaches to the history of generative linguistics. In addition, it evaluates the approaches thus discussed against a set of evaluation criteria. Part II demonstrates in a case study the workability of a model of plausible argumentation that goes beyond the limits of current historiographical approaches. Due to the comprehensive analysis of the state of the art, the book may be useful for graduate and undergraduate students. However, since it is also intended to enrich the historiography of linguistics in a novel way, the book may also attract the attention of both linguists interested in the history of science, and historians of science interested in linguistics.

Psychology of Language and Thought

Psychology of Language and Thought PDF Author: Robert W. Rieber
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1468436449
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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The fact that one would contemplate publication of a book such as this indicates both the maturity and the growth of activity that have taken place in the field of psycholinguistics over the past few decades. More over, the fact that psycholinguists and/or scholars of the history of ideas are interested in the history of their subject clearly demonstrates that much has been accomplished, and the time is indeed ripe for the reassess ment of whence we have come. In addition, perhaps this interest in our historical past suggests that psycholinguistics is at a critical stage in its development. There are many scholars who believe that this critical stage manifests itself primarily in a search for a new paradigm. It would seem only reasonable to suggest that when members of a profession are search ing for something new, more than likely they will take time to reflect on the past in the hope that it will facilitate the fulfillment of their quest. This book as such reflects a wide-ranging search for historical roots over a millenium of research in the psychology of language and thought. Furthermore, it also reflects an attempt to open the context by introducing the broader perspectives of the history of ideas and the history of science together with their reassessment of the method of science motivated from within psychology itself.