This is an account of the schism that developed in linguistics during the 1960s and 70s, between Noam Chomsky with his revolutionary ideas about mental structure and universal grammar, and his disciples who took his ideas in a direction he was unhappy with. The repercussions of this divisive and acrimonious dispute remain in the ways that linguists look at language and the mind.
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This is an account of the schism that developed in linguistics during the 1960s and 70s, between Noam Chomsky with his revolutionary ideas about mental structure and universal grammar, and his disciples who took his ideas in a direction he was unhappy with. The repercussions of this divisive and acrimonious dispute remain in the ways that linguists look at language and the mind.
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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.
