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The Western Classical Tradition in Linguistics (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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The Western Classical Tradition in Linguistics (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Series: Equinox Textbooks & Surveys in Linguistics
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'The Western Classical Tradition in Linguistics' extends from
Ancient Greece to the 21st century and has spread from Europe to
the other four inhabited continents. It is a story of successive
stages of language study, each building upon, or reacting against,
the preceding period. There is a theoretical track passing through
Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics to the scholastics of the later
middle ages; on to the vernacular grammarians of the renaissance,
then the rationalists and universal grammarians of the 17th, 18th
and 20th centuries. Joining this, is a tradition relating language
to thought handed on from Epicurus and Lucretius to Locke,
Condillac, Humboldt, Saussure, Boas, Sapir, Whorf and today's
cognitivists. There is at the same time a pedagogical track
deriving from the Greek grammarians Dionysius Thrax and Apollonius
Dyscolus via the Latins, Donatus, Priscian, and their commentators;
a track that gives rise to prescriptivism and applied linguistics.
The book's penultimate chapter examines the re-ascendancy of
hypothetico-deductive theory over the inductivist theories of the
early 20th century, concluding that both approaches are necessary
for the proper modelling of language in the 21st century and
beyond. In this second edition there is a new final chapter that
traces the history of semantics and pragmatics from earliest times
to the present day.
General
Imprint: |
Equinox Publishing Ltd
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Equinox Textbooks & Surveys in Linguistics |
Release date: |
June 2010 |
First published: |
June 2010 |
Authors: |
Keith Allan
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
432 |
Edition: |
2nd Revised edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-84553-665-7 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-84553-665-7 |
Barcode: |
9781845536657 |
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