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The Linguistics Delusion / Geoffrey Sampson. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Bristol, Connecticut : Equinox Publishing, (c)2017.Description: x, 221 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
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  • unmediated
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ISBN:
  • 9781781795774
LOC classification:
  • P121.S192.T445
  • P121
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Contents:
Two ideas of creativity -- Grammaticality meets real-life usage -- Rigid strings and flaky snowflakes -- Economic growth and linguistic theory -- The "cognitive" alternative -- One man's norm is another's metaphor --
From phonemic spelling to distinctive spelling -- The reality of compound ideographs --
A linguistic axiom challenged -- Complexity in language and in law --
A phonological paradox -- How many possible trade names are there?.
Subject: Linguistics is a subject which came to the fore only in the 1960s. It is founded on a fallacy. Linguistics claims to be 'the scientific study of language', but language behaviour is too open-ended and creative to be treated by the methods of science. In consequence, linguistic theories systematically distort the nature of language, and present a misleading picture of our human nature. Geoffrey Sampson shows how various traditions of linguistics, and their accounts of different aspects of language, are all infected by the delusion of scientism. And he offers positive examples of how language can be studied insightfully, once the scientistic delusion is given up. AMAZON https://www.amazon.com/Linguistics-Delusion-Geoffrey-Sampson/dp/1781795770/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1NKZG3XR4Z4S3&keywords=9781781795774&qid=1682339375&s=books&sprefix=9%2Cstripbooks%2C93&sr=1-1
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I. LANGUAGE OVER-THEORIZED -- Two ideas of creativity -- Grammaticality meets real-life usage -- Rigid strings and flaky snowflakes -- Economic growth and linguistic theory -- The "cognitive" alternative -- One man's norm is another's metaphor --

II. WRITING SYSTEMS -- From phonemic spelling to distinctive spelling -- The reality of compound ideographs --

III. LANGUAGE COMPLEXITY -- A linguistic axiom challenged -- Complexity in language and in law --

IV. AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT -- A phonological paradox -- How many possible trade names are there?.

Linguistics is a subject which came to the fore only in the 1960s. It is founded on a fallacy. Linguistics claims to be 'the scientific study of language', but language behaviour is too open-ended and creative to be treated by the methods of science. In consequence, linguistic theories systematically distort the nature of language, and present a misleading picture of our human nature. Geoffrey Sampson shows how various traditions of linguistics, and their accounts of different aspects of language, are all infected by the delusion of scientism. And he offers positive examples of how language can be studied insightfully, once the scientistic delusion is given up. AMAZON

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