28.3868, Books: The Linguistics Delusion: Sampson

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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 10:31:56
From: Janet Joyce [jjoyce at equinoxpub.com]
Subject: The Linguistics Delusion: Sampson

 


Title: The Linguistics Delusion 
Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
	   http://www.equinoxpub.com/
	

Book URL: https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/linguistics-delusion/ 


Author: Geoffrey Sampson

Electronic: ISBN:  9781781796061 Pages: 234 Price: U.S. $ 29.95 Comment: £22.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9781781795774 Pages: 234 Price: U.S. $ 100 Comment: £75
Paperback: ISBN:  9781781795781 Pages: 234 Price: U.S. $ 29.95 Comment: £22.95


Abstract:

Linguistics is a subject which came to the fore only in the 1960s. According
to Professor Sampson it is founded on a fallacy. Linguistics claims to be ‘the
scientific study of language’, but language behaviour is too open-ended and
creative to be treated by the methods of science. In consequence, linguistic
theories systematically distort the nature of language, and present a
misleading picture of our human nature. 

Geoffrey Sampson shows how various traditions of linguistics, and their
accounts of different aspects of language, are all infected by the delusion of
scientism. And he offers positive examples of how language can be studied
insightfully, once the scientistic delusion is given up.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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