The Western tradition in the twentieth century
By: John E. Joseph, Nigel Love, and Talbot J. Taylor.
Contributors: Love, Nigel.; Taylor, Talbot J.
Series: Routledge history of linguistic thought series; Landmarks in linguistic thought -- 2
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Linguistics -- History -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-260) and index.
Table of contents: value: Sapir on language, culture and personality; value: Jakobson and structuralism; value: Orwell on language and politics; value: Whorf on language and thought; value: Firth on language and context; value: Wittgenstein on grammatical investigations; value: Austin on language as action; value: Skinner on verbal behaviour; value: Chomsky on language as biology; value: Labov on linguistic variation; value: Goffman on the communicating self; value: Bruner on the child's passport into language; value: Derrida on the linguistic sign and writing; value: Harris on linguistics without languages; value: Kanzi on human language.