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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...
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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 |
Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. The Multiple Ambiguities of American Linguistic Identity
- Ch. 2. 'The American Whitney' and his European Heritages and Legacies
- Ch. 3. 20th-Century Linguistics in America and Europe
- Ch. 4. The Sources of the 'Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis'
- Ch. 5. The Origins of American Sociolinguistics
- Ch. 6. Bloomfield's and Chomsky's Readings of the Cours de linguistique generale
- Ch. 7. How Structuralist Was 'American Structuralism'?
- Ch. 8. How Behaviourist Was Verbal Bahavior?
- Ch. 9. The Popular (Mis)interpretations of Whorf and Chomsky: What they had in common, and why they had to happen.