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On language : Chomsky's classic works, Language and responsibility and reflections on language / Noam Chomsky.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Chomsky's classic worksPublisher: New York ; London : The New Press, 2007Description: viii, 212, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1565844750
  • 9781565844759
Other title:
  • Chomsky's classic works Language
  • Language and responsibility and Reflections on language
Contained works:
  • Chomsky, Noam. Reflections on language
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 410 CHO 22
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Contents:
Language and Responsibility (1979). 1. Politics. 2. Linguistics and the Human Sciences. 3. A Philosophy of Language? 4. Empiricism and Rationalism. 5. The Birth of Generative Grammar. 6. Semantics. 7. The Extended Standard Theory. 8. Deep Structure. 9. Universal Grammar and Unresolved Questions -- Reflections on Language (1975). 1. On Cognitive Capacity. 2. The Object of Inquiry. 3. Some General Features of Language. 4. Problems and Mysteries in the Study of Human Language.
Summary: In Part I, Language and Responsibility, Chomsky presents a fascinating self-portrait of his political, moral, and linguistic thinking. In Part II, Reflections on Language, Chomsky explores the more general implications of the study of language and offers incisive analyses of the controversies among psychologists, philosophers, and linguists over fundamental questions of language.
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Language and resposibility is an English translation of conversations in French and English between Noam Chomsky and Mitsou Ronat. The conversation transcript was translated completely into French and first published as Dialogues avec Mitsou Ronat.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language and Responsibility (1979). 1. Politics. 2. Linguistics and the Human Sciences. 3. A Philosophy of Language? 4. Empiricism and Rationalism. 5. The Birth of Generative Grammar. 6. Semantics. 7. The Extended Standard Theory. 8. Deep Structure. 9. Universal Grammar and Unresolved Questions -- Reflections on Language (1975). 1. On Cognitive Capacity. 2. The Object of Inquiry. 3. Some General Features of Language. 4. Problems and Mysteries in the Study of Human Language.

In Part I, Language and Responsibility, Chomsky presents a fascinating self-portrait of his political, moral, and linguistic thinking. In Part II, Reflections on Language, Chomsky explores the more general implications of the study of language and offers incisive analyses of the controversies among psychologists, philosophers, and linguists over fundamental questions of language.

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