Theory groups and the study of language in North America
a social history
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Word Count
148,500 words, Guess
Page Count
594 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-101556193645
- ISBN-109027245568
- ISBN-139781556193644
- ISBN-139789027245564
- Goodreads422982
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- Library of Congress Control Number93034835
- OCLC Control Number28929291
- Better World Books9789027245564
- Better World Books9781556193644
- Open LibraryOL1424294M
Classifications
- DDC410/.973
- LCCP81.U5 M87 1994
- LCCP81.U5M87 1994
Description
Theory Groups in the Study of Language in North America provides a detailed social history of traditions and "revolutionary" challenges to traditions within North American linguistics, especially within 20th-century anthropological linguistics. After showing substantial differences between Bloomfield's and neo-Bloomfieldian theorizing, Murray shows that early transformational-generative work on syntax grew out of neo-Bloomfieldian structuralism, and was promoted by neo-Bloomfieldian gatekeepers, in particular longtime Language editor Bernard Bloch. The central case studies of the book contrast the (increasingly) "revolutionary rhetoric" of transformational-generative grammarians with rhetorics of continuity emitted by two linguistic anthropology groupings that began simultaneously with TGG in the late-1950s, the ethnography of communication and ethnoscience.
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Series Statement
- Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science.
- v. 69
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