Linguistics Inside Out
Roy Harris and his critics
Published on 13. February 1997
Book
Hardback
344 pages
978-1-55619-863-2 (ISBN)
Description
Roy Harris's thoroughgoing attack on the presuppositions underpinning the dominant traditions of Western thought about language, and his advocacy of a radically reconceived linguistics focused on the idea that the linguistic sign is contextually created and interpreted as a function of the meaningful integration of communicative behaviour, have made him one of the most controversial figures in the field today. In the essays in this volume Naomi S. Baron, Bob Borsley, Philip Carr, David Fleming, Rom Harre, Anthony Holiday, John E. Joseph, Frederick J. Newmeyer, David R. Olson, Trevor Pateman, John Soeren Pettersson and John R. Taylor offer a critical examination of various aspects and implications of Harris's views, in reponse to which Harris contributes an article that both engages with his critics and develops some of the major themes of his work.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam/Philadelphia
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
610 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55619-863-2 (9781556198632)
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Content
1. Preface; 2. Contributors; 3. Roy Harris: Publications 1956-1995; 4. Prologue; 5. 1 The "Language Myth" Myth: Roy Harris's Red Herrings (by Joseph, John E.); 6. 2 The Language Muddle: Roy Harris and Generative Grammar (by Borsley, Robert D.); 7. 3 Telementation and Generative Linguistics (by Carr, Philip); 8. 4 Phonography: Setting a Term to the Evolution of Writing (by Pettersson, John Soren); 9. 5 A New Mentality (by Olson, David R.); 10. 6 Science and Significance: Making Sense of Wittgenstein's Ways of Seeing (by Holiday, Anthony); 11. 7 Rules and Algorithms: Wittgenstein on Language (by Harre, Rom); 12. 8 Contextualizing "Context": From Malinowski to Machine Translation (by Baron, Naomi S.); 13. 9 Is Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis an "Integrational" Account of Language? (by Fleming, David); 14. 10 Linguistic Theory and the Multiple-Trace Model of Memory (by Taylor, John R.); 15. 11 Language, Art and Kant (by Pateman, Trevor); 16. 12 From an Integrational Point of View (by Harris, Roy); 17. Epilogue; 18. References; 19. Index