Landmarks in Linguistic Thought Volume II:

Landmarks in Linguistic Thought Volume IIintroduces key thinkers of twentieth-century linguistics. Each of the fifteen chapters focuses on a different thinker or theorist-Austin, Chomsky, Derrida, Firth, Goffman, Harris, Jakobson, Labov, Orwell, Sapir, Whorff, and Wittgenstein-and includes extracts from their work. Through these figures, the major linguistic issues and themes of the last century are introduced.

Acknowledgements

vi

Introduction

vii

Sapir on language, culture and personality

1

(16)

Jakobson and structuralism

17

(12)

Orwell on language and politics

29

(14)

Whorf on language and thought

43

(14)

Firth on language and context

57

(15)

Wittgenstein on grammatical investigations

72

(19)

Austin on language as action

91

(15)

Skinner on verbal behaviour

106

(16)

Chomsky on language as biology

122

(18)

Labov on linguistic variation

140

(15)

Goffman on the communicating self

155

(16)

Bruner on the child's passport into language

171

(17)

Derrida on the linguistic sign and writing

188

(15)

Harris on linguistics without languages

203

(16)

Kanzi on human language

219

(18)

Suggestions for further reading

237

(11)

Bibliography

248

(13)

Index

261

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Landmarks in Linguistic Thought Volume II: The Western Tradition in the Twentieth Century

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