Before revision: No part of the discipline—not even semantics—need be "contaminated" any longer by association with such 'un-scientific' disciplines as cultural anthropology or social science.Just as Bloomfield's mentalism was one way of keeping meaning away from form, by consigning it to psychology and sociology, so Chomsky's performance is a way to keep meaning and other contaminants away from form, by consigning them to "memory limitations, distractions, shifts of attention and interest" as well as to "the physical and social conditions of language , use" (1965 [1964]:3; 1977:3)—to psychology and sociology See also Decoding Chomsky Generative linguistics Origin of language Origin of speech Recursion References Further reading Knight, C. and C. Power 2008.
After revision: The Library of BabelNo part of the discipline—not even semantics—need be "contaminated" any longer by association with such 'un-scientific' disciplines as cultural anthropology or social science.Just as Bloomfield's mentalism was one way of keeping meaning away from form, by consigning it to psychology and sociology, so Chomsky's performance is a way to keep meaning and other contaminants away from form, by consigning them to "memory limitations, distractions, shifts of attention and interest" as well as to "the physical and social conditions of language , use" (1965 [1964]:3; 1977:3)—to psychology and sociology See also Decoding Chomsky Generative linguistics Origin of language Origin of speech Recursion References Further reading Knight, C. and C. Power 2008.