American Linguistics In Transition

Author : Frederick J. Newmeyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
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Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Generative grammar
ISBN : 9780192843760

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American Linguistics in Transition by Frederick J. Newmeyer Pdf

This volume is devoted to a major chapter in the history of linguistics in the United States, the period from the 1930s to the 1980s, and focuses primarily on the transition from (post-Bloomfieldian) structural linguistics to early generative grammar. The first three chapters in the book discuss the rise of structuralism in the 1930s; the interplay between American and European structuralism; and the publication of Joos's Readings in Linguistics in 1957. Later chapters explore the beginnings of generative grammar and the reaction to it from structural linguists; how generativists made their ideas more widely known; the response to generativism in Europe; and the resistance to the new theory by leading structuralists, which continued into the 1980s. The final chapter demonstrates that contrary to what has often been claimed, generative grammarians were not in fact organizationally dominant in the field in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s.

Author : Frederick J. Newmeyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192657459

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American Linguistics in Transition by Frederick J. Newmeyer Pdf

This volume is devoted to a major chapter in the history of linguistics in the United States, the period from the 1930s to the 1980s, and focuses primarily on the transition from (post-Bloomfieldian) structural linguistics to early generative grammar. The first three chapters in the book discuss the rise of structuralism in the 1930s; the interplay between American and European structuralism; and the publication of Joos's Readings in Linguistics in 1957. Later chapters explore the beginnings of generative grammar and the reaction to it from structural linguists; how generativists made their ideas more widely known; the response to generativism in Europe; and the resistance to the new theory by leading structuralists, which continued into the 1980s. The final chapter demonstrates that contrary to what has often been claimed, generative grammarians were not in fact organizationally dominant in the field in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s.

Author : Julie Tetel Andresen
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Language
ISBN : 0415132592

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Linguistics in America 1769-1924 by Julie Tetel Andresen Pdf

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 capture a significant portion of American linguistics activity. These are the study of American Indian languages, the emergence of a distinctive Anglo-American `thought' which has been accompanied by the defence of American English and the influence of European linguistic theories on American scholarship. Throughout the book the idea is developed that theories of language do not transcend the language in which they are written, and metaphors and images are uncovered that are particular to the American-language linguisitc tradition. Undergraduate and graduate students of linguistics will find this book ideal background reading. It will be particularly useful to all students of historical linguisitcs.

Author : Martin Joos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 028245666X

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Readings in Linguistics by Martin Joos Pdf

Excerpt from Readings in Linguistics: The Development of Descriptive Linguistics in America Since 1925The sequence and the ambiguity are historically founded. American Linguistics derives, ultimately and also currently, from the brute necessities of stating what has been found in a particular language. It got its decisive direction when it was decided that an indigenous language could be described better without any preexistent scheme of what a language must be than with the usual reliance upon Latin as the model. It is usual to name Franz Boas in this connection; other early contributors are represented in his Handbook (see p. 385 here). From that time to today, the style of American Linguistics continues unbroken, through vast total changes. One transition may be mentioned here; the rest is in the Readings.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : E.F.K. Koerner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134495085

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Toward a History of American Linguistics by E.F.K. Koerner Pdf

A comprehensive account of essential periods and areas of research in the history of American Linguistics which addresses contemporary debates and issues within linguistics.

Author : Dell Hymes,John Fought
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110879285

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American Structuralism by Dell Hymes,John Fought Pdf

Author : David Cram,Andrew R. Linn,Elke Nowak
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027283825

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History of Linguistics 1996 by David Cram,Andrew R. Linn,Elke Nowak Pdf

The papers in this volume present a colourful picture of the range of research currently being undertaken in the field of the history of linguistics, with contribution both from established scholars and from younger researchers. The volume is organised on a geographical basis, with sections devoted to a number of different traditions in linguistics world-wide. The opening section is concerned with a number of general and methodological topics — ranging from the notion of ‘revolution’ in linguistic historiography to the history of the study of ape language. The second section is devoted to ‘missionary linguistics’, an umbrella category for the early contacts of Europeans with non-European languages. Subsequent sections address individual traditions in linguistics: III. The Celtic Tradition; IV. The Chinese Tradition; V. The Georgian Tradition; VI. The Hebrew Tradition; VII. The Japanese Tradition; VIII. The Persian Tradition; IX. The Russian Tradition; X. The Tamil Tradition.

Author : John E. Joseph
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002-12-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027275370

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From Whitney to Chomsky by John E. Joseph Pdf

What is ‘American’ about American linguistics? Is Jakobson, who spent half his life in America, part of it? What became of Whitney’s genuinely American conception of language as a democracy? And how did developments in 20th-century American linguistics relate to broader cultural trends?This book brings together 15 years of research by John E. Joseph, including his discovery of the meeting between Whitney and Saussure, his ground-breaking work on the origins of the ‘Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis’ and of American sociolinguistics, and his seminal examination of Bloomfield and Chomsky as readers of Saussure. Among the original findings and arguments contained herein: • why ‘American structuralism’ does not end with Chomsky, but begins with him; • how Bloomfield managed to read Saussure as a behaviourist avant la lettre; • why in the long run Skinner has emerged victorious over Chomsky; • how Whorf was directly influenced by the mystical writings of Madame Blavatsky; • how the Whitney–Max Müller debates in the 19th century connect to the intellectual disparity between Chomsky’s linguistic and political writings.

Author : Stephen O. Murray
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027245564

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Theory Groups and the Study of Language in North America by Stephen O. Murray Pdf

Theory Groups in the Study of Language in North America provides a detailed social history of traditions and "revolutionary" challenges to traditions within North American linguistics, especially within 20th-century anthropological linguistics. After showing substantial differences between Bloomfield's and neo-Bloomfieldian theorizing, Murray shows that early transformational-generative work on syntax grew out of neo-Bloomfieldian structuralism, and was promoted by neo-Bloomfieldian gatekeepers, in particular longtime Language editor Bernard Bloch. The central case studies of the book contrast the (increasingly) "revolutionary rhetoric" of transformational-generative grammarians with rhetorics of continuity emitted by two linguistic anthropology groupings that began simultaneously with TGG in the late-1950s, the ethnography of communication and ethnoscience.

Author : Mary Kohn,Walt Wolfram,Charlie Farrington,Jennifer Renn,Janneke Van Hofwegen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108835947

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African American Language by Mary Kohn,Walt Wolfram,Charlie Farrington,Jennifer Renn,Janneke Van Hofwegen Pdf

A pioneering 20-year longitudinal study of 67 African American children that illuminates how and why language changes in childhood.

Author : Permanent International Committee of Linguists
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Linguistics
ISBN : UOM:39015031034534

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Trends in European and American Linguistics, 1930-1960. Edited on the Occasion of the Ninth International Congress of Linguist, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 27 August-1 September 162, for the Permanent International Committee of Linguists by Christine Mohrmann, Alf Sommerfelt and Joshua Whatmoogh by Permanent International Committee of Linguists Pdf

Author : Christine Mohrmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UCAL:B4283218

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Trends in European and American Linguistics, 1930-1960 by Christine Mohrmann Pdf

Author : Julie Tetel Andresen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134976119

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Linguistics in America 1769 - 1924 by Julie Tetel Andresen Pdf

Throughout this analytical book the idea is developed that theories of language do not transcend the language in which they are written, and ways are uncovered that are peculiar to the American-language linguistic tradition.

Author : J. Taylor-Batty
Publisher : Springer
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137367969

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Multilingualism in Modernist Fiction by J. Taylor-Batty Pdf

This new study argues that modernist literature is characterised by a 'multilingual turn'. Examining the use of different languages in the fiction of a range of writers, including Lawrence, Richardson, Mansfield, Rhys, Joyce and Beckett, Taylor-Batty demonstrates the centrality of linguistic plurality to modernist forms of defamiliarisation.

Author : Mary Bucholtz,A. C. Liang,Laurel A. Sutton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0195352149

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Reinventing Identities by Mary Bucholtz,A. C. Liang,Laurel A. Sutton Pdf

Talk is crucial to the way our identities are constructed, altered, and defended. Feminist scholars in particular have only begun to investigate how deeply language reflects and shapes who we think we are. This volume of previously unpublished essays, the first in the new series Studies in Language and Gender, advances that effort by bringing together leading feminist scholars in the area of language and gender, including Deborah Tannen, Jennifer Coates, and Marcyliena Morgan, as well as rising younger scholars. Topics explored include African-American drag queens, gender and class on the shopping channel, and talk in the workplace.