Ignorance of language / Michael Devitt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Devitt, Michael, 1938- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psycholinguistics.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 304 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 aboutlinguistic reality and is not part of psychology; that linguistic rules are not represented in the mind; that speak

Contents:

A grammar as a theory of linguistic reality

Some possible positions on psychological reality

Some actual positions on psychological reality

The rejection of behaviorism

Folk psychology

Intuitions

Thought before language

A case for psychological reality of language

Thought and the language faculty

Language use

Language acquisition.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-293) and index.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

0-19-925097-9

1-281-16406-2

9786611164065

0-19-153061-1

1-4356-2248-0

OCLC:

191061758