1st Edition
The Foundations of Linguistic Theory (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar) Selected Writings of Roy Harris
Edited By Nigel Love
Copyright 2014
256 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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For Roy Harris, the fundamental problem about linguistics is that it has been led astray by the fact that we are capable intellectually of ‘decontextualising’ our own verbal behaviour. A whole interlocking system of doctrines about forms, meanings and communication has arisen designed to support the idea that one particular kind of decontextualising analysis is a prerequisite for, rather than a... Read more
Preface. Roy Harris: A Chronological Bibliography. Editor’s Introduction. 1. Synonym and Morphological Analysis 2. Words and Word Criteria in French 3. Semantics and Translation 4. Performative Paradigms 5. Semantics, Performatives and Truth 6. Truth-Conditional Semantics and Natural Languages 7. Making Sense of Communicative Competence 8. Communication and Language 9. The Speech-Communication Model in Twentieth-Century Linguistics and Its Sources 10. Must Monkeys Mean? 11. Scriptism 12. Language as Social Interaction: Integrationalism versus Segregationalism 13. The Semiology of Textualization
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Nigel Love
