Since the mid-twentieth century, the field of linguistics has been a tumultuous discipline. The Linguistics Wars tells the story of the acrimonious schism, during the sixties and seventies, that divided the ranks of linguistics after the publication of Noam Chomsky's influental Aspects of the Theory of Syntax . This schism began when some of Chomsky's earliest followers formed a splinter group and began to take Chomsky's ideas in a direction he found uncongenial. Chomsky rejected the extensions these former followers ... Read More
Since the mid-twentieth century, the field of linguistics has been a tumultuous discipline. The Linguistics Wars tells the story of the acrimonious schism, during the sixties and seventies, that divided the ranks of linguistics after the publication of Noam Chomsky's influental Aspects of the Theory of Syntax . This schism began when some of Chomsky's earliest followers formed a splinter group and began to take Chomsky's ideas in a direction he found uncongenial. Chomsky rejected the extensions these former followers were taking, commencing a decade of infighting that generated a good deal of noise, lasting bitterness, and vast amounts of knowledge in the field. While Chomsky won the battle, the features of generative semantics made their way into other approaches and continue to influence linguistics to this very day. Full of anecdotes and personalities, The Linguistic Wars is not only a riveting narrative of the course of this important intellectual controversy, but a revealing look into how scientists and scholars actually negotiate such theories and approaches. Read Less
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If you are looking for some clue over the most celebrated and discussed and opposed position over language and our psychological there-to-be-demonstrated endowment of the last half a century - that is, Mr. Noam Chomsky's Generative Grammar - here's the book that you should read. With witty argumentation, subtle and humorous, a good capacity for historical summary and interesting insight into the personalities of the dramatis personae of the story Randy Allen Harris homages the displacement by Mr. Chomsky of American structuralist linguistics underlying both merits and shortcomings of his theory, including short but clear and efficacious explanations of the main theoretical questions the movement of Generative Grammar had taken, and pays attention to the dispute between the master and its former disciples, (with an eye always to the social and historical background, which saw the emergence of the so-called "counterculture" of the 60s, then into the recession of values of the 70s, and up into the savage 80s), which arisen just over these theoretical questions, that developed in the antagonist current of Generative Semantics, highlighting the general and particular differences and dwelling with intelligence on the reasons why Mr. Chomsky at last won the dispute, or as it is called by the protagonists, the "wars". An enjoyable, fresh, sparkling book which will keep you on the chair up to the last line.
