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1. Linguistics in America 1769 - 1924

   A Critical History

   By Julie Tetel Andresen

   Series: History of Linguistic Thought

   This book examnines the developments, themes, and social frameworks that determined the development of American linguistics since the founding of the American Philosophical Society in 1769 to the founding of the Linguistic Society of America in 1924. Julie Andersen proposes that three developments...

   Published August 5th 2012 by Routledge
2. Landmarks in Linguistic Thought Volume II

   The Western Tradition in the Twentieth Century

   By John E. Joseph, Nigel Love, Talbot J Taylor

   Series: History of Linguistic Thought

   Landmarks in Linguistic Thought II introduces the major issues and themes that have determined the development of Western thinking about language, meaning and communication in the twentieth century.Each chapter contains an extract from a 'landmark' text followed by a commentary, which places the...

   Published May 30th 2001 by Routledge
3. Generative Linguistics

   An Historical Perspective

   By Frederick J. Newmeyer

   Series: History of Linguistic Thought

   Written by one of America's most prominent linguists the essays in Generative Linguistics provide a challenging reappraisal of the 'Chomskyan Revolution' - the implications of which are being debated some three decades on....

   Published July 2nd 1997 by Routledge
4. Landmarks in Linguistic Thought Volume III

   The Arabic Linguistic Tradition

   By Kees Versteegh

   Series: History of Linguistic Thought

   Landmarks in Linguistic Thought Vol 3 is devoted to a linguistic tradition that lies outside the Western mainstream, namely that of the Middle East.The reader is introduced to the major issues and themes that have determined the development of the Arabic linguistic tradition. Each chapter contains...

   Published May 7th 1997 by Routledge
5. Landmarks In Linguistic Thought Volume I

   The Western Tradition From Socrates To Saussure, 2nd Edition

   By Professor Roy Harris, Roy Harris, Talbot Taylor

   Series: History of Linguistic Thought

   By introducing the reader to the main issues and themes that have determined the development of the Western linguistic tradition, an evolution of linguistic thought quickly becomes apparent. Each chapter in this accessible book contains a short extract from a `landmark' text followed by a...

   Published March 26th 1997 by Routledge
6. Ideology and Linguistic Theory

   Noam Chomsky and the Deep Structure Debates

   By John A. Goldsmith, Geoffrey J. Huck

   Series: History of Linguistic Thought

   In Ideology and Linguistic Theory Geoffrey Huck and John Goldsmith provide a revisionist account of the development of ideas about semantics in modern theories of language, focusing particularly on Chomsky's very public rift with the Generative Semanticists about the concept of Deep Structure....

   Published October 30th 1996 by Routledge
7. Linguistics, Anthropology and Philosophy in the French Enlightenment

   A contribution to the history of the relationship between language theory and ideology

   By Ulrich Ricken

   Series: History of Linguistic Thought

   Linguistics, Anthropology and Philosophy in the French Enlightenment treats the development of linguistic thought from Descartes to Degerando as both a part of and a determining factor in the emergence of modern consciousness. Through his careful analyses of works by the most influential thinkers...

   Published December 1st 1993 by Routledge
8. Language, Saussure and Wittgenstein

   How to Play Games with Words

   By Professor Roy Harris, Roy Harris

   Series: History of Linguistic Thought

   Saussure as a linguist and Wittgenstein as a philosopher of language are arguably the two most important figures in the development of twentieth-century linguistic thought. By pointing out what their ideas have in common, in spite of emanating from very different intellectual sources, this study...

   Published October 24th 1990 by Routledge