Cartesian Linguistics :A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought

Publication subTitle :A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought

Author: Noam Chomsky  

Publisher: Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year: 2009

E-ISBN: 9780511501098

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521881760

Subject: H0-05 Language and other subjects the relationship

Keyword: 语言学

Language: ENG

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Cartesian Linguistics

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In this extraordinarily original and profound work, Noam Chomsky discusses themes in the study of language and mind since the end of the sixteenth century in order to explain the motivations and methods that underlie his work in linguistics, the science of mind, and even politics. This edition includes a new and specially written introduction by James McGilvray, contextualising the work for the twenty-first century. It has been made more accessible to a larger audience; all the French and German in the original edition has been translated, and the notes and bibliography have been brought up to date. The relationship between the original edition (published in 1966) and contemporary biolinguistic work is also explained. This challenging volume is an important contribution to the study of language and mind, and to the history of these studies since the end of the sixteenth century.

Chapter

II.2 The Chomsky difference: naturalizing language and mind

II.3 Naturalizing the study of language: biolinguistics

III Descartes’s contributions

III.1 Natural science

III.2 Linguistic creativity

III.3 A computational theory of mind

IV Cartesian Linguistics: education and politics

Cartesian Linguistics: A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Creative aspect of language use

Deep and surface structure

Description and explanation in linguistics

Acquisition and use of language

Summary

Notes

INTRODUCTION TO THE THIRD EDITION

CARTESIAN LINGUISTICS

Bibliography

Index

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