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Ignorance of language
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
26,45€
- Publisher OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780199250974
- ISBN10 0199250979
- Type Book
- Pages 304
- Published 2008
- Language English
- Bookbinding Rustic
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LinguisticsIgnorance of language
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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The Chomskian revolution in linguistics gave rise to a new orthodoxy about mind and language. Michael Devitt throws down a provocative challenge to that orthodoxy. What is linguistics about? What role should linguistic intuitions play in constructing grammars? What is innate about language? Is there a 'language faculty'? These questions are crucial to our developing understanding of ourselves; Michael Devitt offers refreshingly original answers. He argues that linguistics is aboutlinguistic reality and is not part of psychology; that linguistic rules are not represented in the mind; that speakers are largely ignorant of their language; that speakers' intuitions do not reflect information supplied by the language faculty and are not the main evidence for grammars; that the rules of 'Universal Grammar' are largely, if not entirely, innate structure rules of thought; indeed, that there is little or nothing to the language faculty. Devitt's controversial theses will prove
highly stimulating to anyone working on language and the mind. --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Relié.
- Publisher OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780199250974
- ISBN10 0199250979
- Type Book
- Pages 304
- Published 2008
- Language English
- Bookbinding Rustic
Sections
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