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From Whitney to Chomsky : essays in the history of American linguistics /
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 trend...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub.,
©2002.
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| Series: | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Studies in the history of the language sciences ;
v. 103. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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 Saus. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 234 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-222) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027275370 9027275378 128331214X 9781283312141 9786613312143 6613312142 |
| ISSN: | 0304-0720 ; |