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History of Linguistic Thought
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Landmarks in Linguistic Thought Volume II
The Western Tradition in the Twentieth Century
Landmarks in Linguistic Thought II introduces the major issues and themes that have determined the development of Western thinking about language, meaning and communication in… read more2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-06397-5 (Routledge)
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Generative Linguistics
An Historical Perspective
Written by one of America's most prominent linguists, the essays in Generative Linguistics provide a challenging reappraisal of the 'Chomskian Revolution' - the implications of… read more1997 | Paperback: 978-0-415-17126-7 (Routledge)
Landmarks in Linguistic Thought Volume III
The Arabic Linguistic Tradition
Landmarks in Linguistic Thought Vol 3 is devoted to a linguistic tradition that lies outside the Western mainstream, namely that of the Middle East.The… read more
1997 | Paperback: 978-0-415-15757-5 (Routledge)
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Landmarks In Linguistic Thought Volume I
The Western Tradition From Socrates To Saussure, 2nd Edition
By introducing the reader to the main issues and themes that have determined the development of the Western linguistic tradition, an evolution of linguistic thought… read more1997 | Paperback: 978-0-415-15362-1 (Routledge)
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Ideology and Linguistic Theory
Noam Chomsky and the Deep Structure Debates
In Ideology and Linguistic Theory Geoffrey Huck and John Goldsmith provide a revisionist account of the development of ideas about semantics in modern theories of… read more1996 | Paperback: 978-0-415-15313-3 (Routledge)
Linguistics, Anthropology and Philosophy in the French Enlightenment
A contribution to the history of the relationship between language theory and ideology
Linguistics, Anthropology and Philosophy in the French Enlightenment treats the development of linguistic thought from Descartes to Degerando as both a part of and a… read more1993 | Hardback: 978-0-415-07679-1 (Routledge)
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Language, Saussure and Wittgenstein
How to Play Games with Words
Saussure as a linguist and Wittgenstein as a philosopher of language are arguably the two most important figures in the development of twentieth-century linguistic thought.… read more1990 | Paperback: 978-0-415-05225-2 (Routledge)