1st Edition
Landmarks in Linguistic Thought Volume II The Western Tradition in the Twentieth Century
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
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 ideas in their social and intellectual context. The book is written in an accessible and... Read more
Introduction 1 Sapir on language, culture and personality 2 Jakobson and structuralism 3 Orwell on language and politics 4 Whorf on language and thought 5 Firth on language and context 6 Wittgenstein on grammatical investigations 7 Austin on language as action 8 Skinner on verbal behaviour 9 Chomsky on language as biology 10 Labov on linguistic variation 11 Goffman on the communicating self 12 Bruner on the child’s passport into language 13 Derrida on the linguistic sign and writing 14 Harris on linguistics without languages 15 Kanzi on human language
Biography
John E. Joseph is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Nigel Love is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Talbot J. Taylor is L.G.T. Cooley Professor of English and Linguistics at the College of William and Mary, Virginia, USA.
'An ideal introduction to the whole gamut of current linguistic ideas ... The ideal introduction for a beginner to the basic issues.' - Ashish Mehta, Jawaharlal Nehru University of India
