The Western Classical Tradition in Linguistics - Second Edition - Keith Allan
Paradigms for linguistic analysis: Bloomfieldian linguistics and the Chomsky revolution
The Western Classical Tradition in Linguistics - Second Edition - Keith Allan
Keith Allan [+]
Monash University
Keith Allan is Professor of Linguistics at Monash University. His research interests focus mainly on aspects of meaning in language, with a secondary interest in the history and philosophy of linguistics. His books include Linguistic Meaning (2 vols, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986), Euphemism and Dysphemism: Language Used as Shield and Weapon (with Kate Burridge, OUP, 1991), Natural Language Semantics (Blackwell, 2001), Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language (with Kate Burridge, CUP 2006), Concise Encyclopaedia of Semantics (Elsevier, 2009) and The English Language and Linguistics Companion (with Julie Bradshaw, et al., Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
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Topics include: The problem of classifying and categorizing data; On kinds of inference applicable to linguistic theorizing; Bloomfieldian linguistics; Chomsky’s disillusionment with the inductivist paradigm; The Chomsky revolution; Correlating theoretical constructs with the reality they purport to represent; Evaluating linguistic hypotheses: what a theory of language should do; An eclectic approach; A tale of two paradigms