Introducing Chomsky

by Maher, John C.

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Compact INTRODUCING guide to the seminal linguist and irrepressible critic of right-wing America.

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Full title :Introducing Chomsky / John Maher and Judy Groves.

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Compact INTRODUCING guide to the seminal linguist and irrepressible critic of right-wing America.

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Publication Date:2011.

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Publisher(s):Icon
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:9781848319677, 1848319673
oclc:ocn941718669
LC Classification:P121
Dewey Decimal:410.9

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introducing Chomsky; Being and Language; The Language Bell; Language Use; How Do We Know Language?; The Diversity Diversion; Getting to the Core of Language; How Do We Explain Language?; Language and Communication; Two Common Uses of Language; Structure Dependence; The Knowledge of Language; E-Language and I-Language; Grammar or Politics?; American Structuralism; What About Saussure?; Galileo's Method; Abstraction; Idealization; Ideal-Type; Violating the Rose; The Idealized Model; Language as a Mental Organ; Descartes' Theory of Body.

A New Theory of BodySkinner's Behaviourist Theory; The Refutation of Behaviourism; Plato's Problem; Language Is Not Learned, It Grows; Innateness; Growth and Constraints on Learning; Language is Not Imitation; What is Knowledge of Language?; Non-Inductive Ability; "Motherese"; The Attack From the Social; The Reply; So What is Linguistics?; Creative vs. Recursive; The Tale of Two Grammars; Traditional Grammar vs. Generative Grammar; The Break with Structuralism; I'm Okay, *You're Okay But Not; Deep Structure, Surface Structure; Universal Grammar; Can We "Map" a Universal Grammar?

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