14.180, Books: History of Linguistics: Joseph

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Date:  Fri, 17 Jan 2003 13:14:08 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  From Whitney to Chomsky: John E. Joseph

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Date:  Fri, 17 Jan 2003 13:14:08 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  From Whitney to Chomsky: John E. Joseph


Title: From Whitney to Chomsky
Subtitle: Essays in the history of American linguistics
Series Title: Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 103
			
Publication Year: 2002
			
Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/, http://www.benjamins.nl		
			
Book URL: http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SiHoLS_103
			

Author: John E. Joseph, University of Edinburgh
				

Hardback: ISBN: 1588113493, Pages: viii, 240 pp., Price: USD 85.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027245924, Pages: viii, 240 pp., Price: EUR 85.00
Paperback: ISBN: 1588113507, Pages: viii, 240 pp., Price: USD 39.95
Paperback: ISBN: 9027245932, Pages: viii, 240 pp., Price: EUR 40.00

			
Abstract:

What is 'American' about American linguistics? Is Jakobson, who spent
half his life in America, part of it? What became of Whitney's
genuinely American conception of language as a democracy? And how did
developments in 20th-century American linguistics relate to broader
cultural trends?

This book brings together 15 years of research by John E. Joseph,
including his discovery of the meeting between Whitney and Saussure,
his ground-breaking work on the origins of the 'Sapir-Whorf
Hypothesis' and of American sociolinguistics, and his seminal
examination of Bloomfield and Chomsky as readers of Saussure.

Among the original findings and arguments contained herein:
-  why 'American structuralism' does not end with Chomsky, but begins
with him;
-  how Bloomfield managed to read Saussure as a behaviourist avant la
lettre;
-  why in the long run Skinner has emerged victorious over Chomsky;
-  how Whorf was directly influenced by the mystical writings of
Madame Blavatsky;
-  how the Whitney-Max Müller debates in the 19th century connect
to the intellectual disparity between Chomsky's linguistic and
political writings.

Lingfield(s): History of Linguistics
			
Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)


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