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Author : Roy Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Foundations of Linguistic Theory written by Roy Harris and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ray Jackendoff
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191574015
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Foundations of Language written by Ray Jackendoff and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-01-24 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does human language work? How do we put ideas into words that others can understand? Can linguistics shed light on the way the brain operates? Foundations of Language puts linguistics back at the centre of the search to understand human consciousness. Ray Jackendoff begins by surveying the developments in linguistics over the years since Noam Chomsky's Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. He goes on to propose a radical re-conception of how the brain processes language. This opens up vivid new perspectives on every major aspect of language and communication, including grammar, vocabulary, learning, the origins of human language, and how language relates to the real world. Foundations of Language makes important connections with other disciplines which have been isolated from linguistics for many years. It sets a new agenda for close cooperation between the study of language, mind, the brain, behaviour, and evolution.
Author : Nigel Love
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317933656
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book The Foundations of Linguistic Theory (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar) written by Nigel Love and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 retrospective reflection on, that behaviour. Against this, in 13 essays collected here for the first time, Harris argues for a fresh start, which recognises that we create language ‘as we go’, both as individuals and as communities, just as we create our social structures, forms of artistic expression, moral values, and everything else we call civilisation. If Harris’s thought can be put in a nutshell, it is that all utterances (whether written or spoken) have to appear in a context, and that context is an integral part of the utterance. There is no such thing as a contextless utterance.
Author : Frederick J. Newmeyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521375818
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (758 download)
Download or read book Linguistic Theory written by Frederick J. Newmeyer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W.S. Cooper
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9789027708762
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Foundations of Logico-Linguistics written by W.S. Cooper and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1978-04-30 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1962 a mimeographed sheet of paper fell into my possession. It had been prepared by Ernest Adams of the Philosophy Department at Berkeley as a handout for a colloquim. Headed 'SOME FALLACIES OF FORMAL LOGIC' it simply listed eleven little pieces of reasoning, all in ordinary English, and all absurd. I still have the sheet, and quote a couple of the arguments here to give the idea. • If you throw switch S and switch T, the motor will start. There fore, either if you throw switch S the motor will start, or, if you throw switch T the motor will start . • It is not the case that if John passes history he will graduate. Therefore, John will pass history. The disconcerting thing about these inferences is, of course, that under the customary truth-functional interpretation of and, or, not, and if-then, they are supposed to be valid. What, if anything, is wrong? At first I was not disturbed by the examples. Having at that time consider able personal commitment to rationality in general and formal logic in par ticular, I felt it my duty and found myself easily able (or so I thought) to explain away most of them. But on reflection I had to admit that my expla nations had an ad hoc character, varying suspiciously from example to example.
Author : Jonathan Owens
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027278636
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book The Foundations of Grammar written by Jonathan Owens and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arabic grammatical tradition is one of the great traditions in the history of linguistics, yet it is also one that is comparatively unknown to modern western linguistics. The purpose of the present book is to provide an introduction to this grammatical tradition not merely by summarizing it, but by putting it into a perspective that will make it accessible to any linguist trained in the western tradition. The reader should not by put off by the word ‘medieval’: Arabic grammatical theory shares a number of fundamental similarities with modern linguistic theory. Indeed, one might argue that one reason Arabic theory has gone unappreciated for so long is that nothing like it existed in the West at the time of its ‘discovery’ by Europeans in the 19th century, when the European orientalist tradition was formed, and that it it only with the development of a Saussurean and Bloomfieldian structural tradition that a better perspective has become possible.
Author : Victor H. Yngve
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027221618
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book From Grammar to Science written by Victor H. Yngve and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although efforts have been under way for the past two centuries to treat language scientifically, linguists and others who work with language, speech, or communication have not found an adequate scientific foundation in current linguistic theory. Many of the difficulties are caused by longstanding confusions between the logical domain of science and grammar and the physical domain of sound waves and the people who speak and understand. In this book, therefore, the last impediments of tradition, the ancient semiotic-grammatical foundations of linguistics, are set aside. We move into the physical domain, where theories and hypotheses can be tested against observations of the physical reality. Here new foundations are laid that are fully consonant with modern science as practiced in physics, chemistry, and biology. On these foundations is built a structure of testable specific dynamic causal laws of communicative behavior that provides support for treating previously recalcitrant context-dependent semantic, pragmatic, interactive, rhetorical, and literary phenomena. The central role of context in the foundations of the theory provides the insights of scientific lawfulness while still honoring the particularity of situations celebrated in the humanities.
Author : S.L. Tsohatzidis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134866984
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Foundations of Speech Act Theory written by S.L. Tsohatzidis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foundations of Speech Act Theory investigates the importance of speech act theory to the problem of meaning in linguistics and philosophy. The papers in this volume, written by respected philosophers and linguists, significantly advance standards of debate in this area. Beginning with a detailed introduction to the individual contributors, this collection demonstrates the relevance of speech acts to semantic theory. It includes essays unified by the assumption that current pragmatic theories are not well equipped to analyse speech acts satisfactorily, and concludes with five studies which assess the relevance of speech act theory to the understanding of philosophical problems outside the area of philosophy of language.
Author : Gustave Guillaume
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Foundations for a Science of Language written by Gustave Guillaume and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199571058
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 1 written by R. M. W. Dixon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Basic Linguistic Theory R. M. W. Dixon provides a comprehensive guide to the nature of human languages and their description and analysis. The books are a one-stop text for undergraduate and graduate students, the triumphant outcome of a lifetime's immersion in every aspect of language, and a lasting monument to innovative scholarship.
Author : Stanley Peters
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Goals of Linguistic Theory written by Stanley Peters and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1972 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dell Hymes
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812210651
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Foundations in Sociolinguistics written by Dell Hymes and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1974-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly influential scholar urges that linguistics be studied as part of the entire communicative conduct of social groups and demonstrates the mutual relation between linguistics and other disciplines, such as sociology, social anthropology, and education.
Author : Martin Atkinson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134741251
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Foundations of General Linguistics (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics) written by Martin Atkinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of this major introduction to linguistics rapidly established itself as an important student textbook, and a reference tool for those who already have some acquaintance with linguistics. This second edition has been updated and revised and includes new chapters on syntax and on current developments in generative grammar, as well as new material on the nature of language and on morphology. This book first provides a comprehensive critical review of the analytic tools and theories of linguistics and systematically surveys major concepts in phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Having established the basic nature and structure of language, the final part of the book engages some of the wider issues concerning the use of language in speaking and understanding (psycholinguistics), language development in children, social aspects of language (sociolinguistics), and historical language choice.
Author : Charles Francis Hockett
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027235503
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Refurbishing Our Foundations written by Charles Francis Hockett and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay challenges several patterns of thinking common in twentieth-century linguistics. The most pervasive of these is our habit of looking at language from the point of view of the speaker. When we take, instead, that of the hearer, matters fall into place in a new way. In syntax, we are led to examine the evidence available to hearers for interpreting what they hear, and this reveals both the true nature and the locus existendi of deep structure. Chomsky's 1957 diagnosis of the then prevalent syntactic theory is upheld, though his proposed remedy is not. The principle of Gestalt perception yields a characterization of the word quite different from Bloomfield's classic definition, lending support of new kind to Pike's mid-century views of the relation between phonemics and grammar. In morphology, assuming the hearer's standpoint forces the abondonment of the atomic morpheme that has prevailed in America since the post-Bloomfieldians, together with much of classical morphophonemics, and by a domino effect this in turn undermines much of generative phonology.
Author : Frederick J. Newmeyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521375801
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (758 download)
Download or read book Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey: Volume 1, Linguistic Theory: Foundations written by Frederick J. Newmeyer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-07-28 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey is a comprehensive introduction to current research in all branches of the field of linguistics, from syntactic theory to ethnography of speaking, from signed language to the mental lexicon, from language acquisition to discourse analysis. Each chapter has been written by a specialist particularly distinguished in his or her field who has accepted the challenge of reviewing the current issues and future prospects in sufficient depth for the scholar and with sufficient clarity for the student. Each volume can be read independently and has a particular focus. In both its scope and in its approach the Survey is a unique and fundamental work of reference. It undoubtedly fulfils the editor's principal aim of providing a wealth of information, insight and ideas that will excite and challenge all readers with an interest in linguistics.
Author : Robert Innis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475709234
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (757 download)
Download or read book Karl Bühler Semiotic Foundations of Language Theory written by Robert Innis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Labov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (127 download)
Download or read book Empirical Foundations of Linguistic Theory written by William Labov and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
