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

by Randy Allen Harris

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019974033X
• ISBN13: 9780199740338
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 568 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"