The Linguistics Wars Chomsky, Lakoff, and the Battle Over Deep Structure

An updated and expanded history of the field of linguistics from the 1950s to the current day The Linguistics Wars tells the tumultuous history of language and cognition studies from the rise of Noam Chomsky's Transformational Grammar to the current day. Focusing on the rupture that split the field between Chomsky's structuralist vision and George Lakoff's meaning-driven theories, Randy Allen Harris portrays the extraordinary personalities that were central to the dispute and its aftermath, alongside the data, technical developments, and social currents that fueled the unfolding and expanding schism. This new edition, updated to cover the more than twenty-five years since its original publication and to trace the impact of that schism on the shape of linguistics in the twenty-first century, is essential reading for all those interested in the study of language, the making of knowledge, and some of the most brilliant minds of our era.

ISBN:	9780199740338
Publisher:	OUP USA
Imprint:	Oxford University Press
Published date:	27 Feb 2022
DEWEY:	410.9045
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xvi, 547
Weight:	798g
Height:	156mm
Width:	235mm
Spine width:	35mm

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