Toward a History of American Linguistics
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Linguistics; 5;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 10 October 2002
- ISBN 9780415300605
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 770 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A comprehensive account of essential periods and areas of research in the history of American Linguistics which addresses contemporary debates and issues within linguistics.
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Beginning with the anthropological linguistic tradition associated primarily with the names of Franz Boas, Edward Sapir and their students and concluding with the work of Noam Chomsky and William Labov at the end of the century. This book offers a comprehensive account of essential periods and areas of research in the history of American Linguistics and also addresses contemporary debates and issues within linguistics.
Topics covered include:
* The sources of the 'Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis'
* Leonard Bloomfield and the Cours de linguistique générale
* The 'Chomskyan Revolution' and its Historiography
* The Origins of Morphophonemics in American Linguistics
*William Labov and the Origins of Sociolinguistics in America.
Toward a History of American Linguistics will be invaluable reading for academics and advanced students within the fields of linguistics and the history of linguistics.
'Koerner's various essays assemble a considerable record of historiographic scholarship on American linguistics by American linguists. There are analytic gems as well as bibliographic detail' - Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
' ... readers will find many useful and informative comments to which no doubt they will wish to refer in future ... Koerner makes good use here of modern studiesm and makes helpful comments on the history of so-called 'missionary linguistics', and on many figures who still deserve to be studied in greater detail ... ' - Linguistics
'This book is informative and suggestive in many ways.' - The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics
MoreTable of Contents:
1. The Historiography of American Linguistics2. Toward a History of Americanist Linguistics3. On the Sources of the 'Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis'4. Leonard Bloomfield and the Cours de Linguistique générale5. American Structuralist Linguistics and the 'Problem of Meaning'6. On the Rise and Fall of Generative Semantics7. Noam Chomsky's Readings of Saussure from 19618. The 'Chomskyan Revolution' and its Historiography9. On the Origins of Morphophonemics in American Linguistics10. William Labov and the Origins of Sociolinguistics in AmericaIn Lieu of a Conclusion: On the Importance of the History of Linguistics
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