Models of the Human in Twentieth-Century Linguistic Theories

System, Order, Creativity

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

AvFeifei Zhou

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This book provides a refreshingly new perspective for investigating linguistic texts, which foregrounds models of the human. The examination of these three fundamental themes concerning language and human nature, on the one hand, provides a fine-textured exposition on the implicit and explicit models of human nature endorsed by major theorists;

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Utgivningsdatum2021-03-18
Mått155 x 235 x 14 mm
Vikt382 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor233
FörlagSpringer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN9789811512575

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Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I: System and the Individual Speaker.- Chapter 2. Sassure: Langue as an autonomous system.- Chapter 3. Bloomfield: A grammar system.- Chapter 4. Chomsky: System and the ideal speaker-hearer.- Chapter 5. Labov: Systemic variation and knowledge.- Chapter 6. Bucholtz and Hall: System and identity.- Chapter 7. Haugen, Mulhausler and Mufwene: System and language ecology.- Chapter 7. Conclusion to Section I.- Part II: Social Order.- Chapter 9. From Durkheim to Garfinkel: Social facts and social order.- Chapter 10. Garfinkel: Members' methods of producing order.- Chapter 11. Case Study.- Chapter 12. Sacks, Schegloff and Jefferson: Order in conversation.- Chapter 13. Social order, rationality and modernity.- Chapter 14. Pragmatics: Order in speech acts.- Chapter 15. Comparison of conversation analysis and speech act theory.- Chapter 16. Conclusion to Section II.- Part III: Creativity.- Chapter 17. Creativity, linguistics, the Skinner-Chomsky controversy.- Chapter 18. Comparing Chomsky, Skinner and Harris: How are human roles conceptualized.- Chapter 19 .Comparing Chomsky, Skinner and Harris: Thoughts on politics and human nature.- Chapter 20. Comparing Chomsky, Skinner and Harris: Thoughts on politics and human nature.- Chapter 21. Alternative theories: Creativity, metaphor, and everyday conversation.- Chapter 22. Creativity, machines and posthumanism.- Chapter 23. Conclusion to Section III.- Chapter 24. Conclusion.