Language & Human Nature shows how faults in language usage, far from being merely irritants to pedants and esthetes, are often both causes and effects of serious public problems, and explores the strange role that linguistics plays in this turbulent scene.
Language & Human Nature shows how faults in language usage, far from being merely irritants to pedants and esthetes, are often both causes and effects of serious public problems, and explores the strange role that linguistics plays in this turbulent scene.
1: The Question of Change in Language 2: How Language is Studied Today 3: Linguistic Authority: Rules, Dictionaries, and Teaching 4: Descriptivist, Prescriptivist, and Linguistic Activist 5: The Eskimo Snow Vocabulary Controversy-A Case Study 6: A People's Linguistics 7: Restoring Rhetoric to Its Throne 8: Decadence and Diseases of Language 9: Plagiarism and Misquotation: the Use of Others' Thoughts and Words 10: What is To Be Done? APPENDIX A: Linguistics as a Science APPENDIX B: Eskimo-Language Terms for Snow and Ice APPENDIX C: AI and the Golem project - the reverse-engineering twins APPENDIX D: Notes on Chomsky and the Chomskyan literature APPENDIX E: A Language of Mathematics? A Proof of Programs? APPENDIX F: The Principal Players Identified APPENDIX G: What is A 'Foreign Term'?
1: The Question of Change in Language 2: How Language is Studied Today 3: Linguistic Authority: Rules, Dictionaries, and Teaching 4: Descriptivist, Prescriptivist, and Linguistic Activist 5: The Eskimo Snow Vocabulary Controversy-A Case Study 6: A People's Linguistics 7: Restoring Rhetoric to Its Throne 8: Decadence and Diseases of Language 9: Plagiarism and Misquotation: the Use of Others' Thoughts and Words 10: What is To Be Done? APPENDIX A: Linguistics as a Science APPENDIX B: Eskimo-Language Terms for Snow and Ice APPENDIX C: AI and the Golem project - the reverse-engineering twins APPENDIX D: Notes on Chomsky and the Chomskyan literature APPENDIX E: A Language of Mathematics? A Proof of Programs? APPENDIX F: The Principal Players Identified APPENDIX G: What is A 'Foreign Term'?
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