The Linguistics Wars
Douban
ISBN: 9780195098341
author:
Randy Allen Harris
publishing house: Oxford University Press
publication date: 1995
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binding: Paperback
price: USD 53.00
number of pages: 368
Randy Allen Harris
overview
This is an account of the schism that developed in linguistics during the 1960s and 70s, between Noam Chomsky with his revolutionary ideas about mental structure and universal grammar, and his disciples who took his ideas in a direction he was unhappy with. The repercussions of this divisive and acrimonious dispute remain in the ways that linguists look at language and the mind.