The Linguistics Wars
| Author | : Randy Allen Harris |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 569 |
| Release | : 2021 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780199740338 |
| ISBN-13 | : 019974033X |
| Rating | : 4/5 (33X Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Linguistics Wars by : Randy Allen Harris
Download or read book The Linguistics Wars written by Randy Allen Harris and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Linguistics Wars tells the tumultuous history of language and cognition studies from the rise of Noam Chomsky's Transformational Grammar to the current day. Focusing on the rupture that split the field between Chomsky's structuralist vision and George Lakoff's meaning-driven theories, Randy Allen Harris portrays the extraordinary personalities that were central to the dispute and its aftermath, alongside the data, technical developments, and social currents that fueled the unfolding and expanding schism.
