Joseph, John Earl

Landmarks in linguistic thought II : the Western tradition in the twentieth century / John E. Joseph, Nigel Love, and Talbot J. Taylor - London : Routledge, 2001 - xiii, 265 p. ; 22 cm. - Landmarks in linguistic thought ; 2 .

Includes bibliographical references and index

Spair on language, culture, and personality -- Jakobson and structuralism -- Orwell on language and politics -- Whorf on language and thought -- Firth on language and context -- Wittgenstein on grammatical investigations -- Austin on language as action -- Skinner on verbal behavior -- Chomsky on language as biology -- Labov on linguistic variation -- Goffman on the communicating self -- Bruner on the child's passport into language -- Derrida on the linguistic sign and writing -- Harris on linguistics without languages -- Kanzi on human language

0415063965 (hbk.) RM402.60

2001-019241


Linguistics--History--20th century