tagmemic grammar

[Barbara Johnstone]

I don't know whether or not Pike designed Tagmemics for the purpose of Bible
translation -- it is a theory of language like any other, which could have
various applications -- but I think it has been used mainly by people
associated with the Summer Institute of Linguistics.  They are not
themselves Bible translators, but rather descriptive linguists who are
somehow affiliated with a missionary organization that translates the Bible.
 The SIL has a website which probably explains this better than I can.

Pike was one of the authors, together with A.L. Becker and Richard Young, of
Rhetoric: Discovery and Change, which I think irepresents what is referred
to as "tagmemic rhetoric."  Pike was the senior member of the group; he had
been Becker's teacher at the University of Michigan.  I don't know whether
he was also Young's teacher.

Barbara Johnstone

--On Sunday, February 28, 1999, 10:15 AM -0500 "Nancy Patterson"
<patter at VOYAGER.NET> wrote:

> I am working on an essay regarding grammar, specifically the role of
grammar
> in language arts studies, but I want to touch on the definitions of
grammar
> as linguists use the term.  And I want to check one of the statements I
> make.  Was tagmemic grammar developed by Pike as a means of approaching
> Biblical translation for oral cultures?  And did tagmemic grammar seque
into
> tagmemic rhetoric?
>
> Thank you.
> Nancy
> Nancy G. Patterson
>
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can
> learn."  bell hooks
>
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