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Ignorance of Language (Paperback)
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The Chomskian revolution in linguistics gave rise to a new
orthodoxy about mind and language. Michael Devitt throws down a
provocative challenge to that orthodoxy. What is linguistics about?
What role should linguistic intuitions play in constructing
grammars? What is innate about language? Is there a "language
faculty?" These questions are crucial to our developing
understanding of ourselves; Michael Devitt offers refreshingly
original answers. He argues that linguistics is about linguistic
reality and is not part of psychology; that linguistic rules are
not represented in the mind; that speakers are largely ignorant of
their language; that speakers' intuitions do not reflect
information supplied by the language faculty and are not the main
evidence for grammars; that the rules of "Universal Grammar" are
largely, if not entirely, innate structure rules of thought;
indeed, that there is little or nothing to the language faculty.
Devitt's controversial theses will prove highly stimulating to
anyone working on language and the mind
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