On language / Noam Chomsky.

By:

Chomsky, Noam

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: French Original language: English Publication details: New York : The New Free Press, 1998. [Ist published in India by Penguin Books India 2003 ]Description: viii, 269 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

0143030000

Contained works:

Ronat, Mitsou. Dialogues avec Mitsou. English

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

410 C548o 2003 20

Contents:

Language and Responsibility (1979). 1. Politics. 2. Linguistics and the Human Sciences. 3. A Philosophy of Language? 4. Empiricism and Rationalism. 5. The Birth of Generative Grammar. 6. Semantics. 7. The Extended Standard Theory. 8. Deep Structure. 9. Universal Grammar and Unresolved Questions -- Reflections on Language (1975). 1. On Cognitive Capacity. 2. The Object of Inquiry. 3. Some General Features of Language. 4. Problems and Mysteries in the Study of Human Language.

Summary: In Part I, Language and Responsibility, Chomsky presents a fascinating self-portrait of his political, moral, and linguistic thinking. In Part II, Reflections on Language, Chomsky explores the more general implications of the study of language and offers incisive analyses of the controversies among psychologists, philosophers, and linguists over fundamental questions of language.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Premier University DELL Library	410 C548o 2003	1	Available		6028
Books	Premier University Central Library	410 C548o 2003	2	Available		9670

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"Chomsky's classic works, Language and responsibility and Reflections on language in one volume."

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Language and resposibility is an English translation of conversations in French and English between Noam Chomsky and Mitsou Ronat. The conversation transcript was translated completely into French and first published as Dialogues avec Mitsou Ronat.

In Part I, Language and Responsibility, Chomsky presents a fascinating self-portrait of his political, moral, and linguistic thinking. In Part II, Reflections on Language, Chomsky explores the more general implications of the study of language and offers incisive analyses of the controversies among psychologists, philosophers, and linguists over fundamental questions of language.

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