Representation of language : philosophical issues in a Chomskyan linguistics / Georges Rey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rey, Georges, 1945- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chomsky, Noam.

Linguistics--Philosophy.

Linguistics.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvi, 450 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Philosophical issues in a Chomskyan linguistics

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

This title is a defense of a Chomskyan conception of language against philosophical objections that have been raised against it. It also provides, however, a critical examination of some of the glosses on the theory: the assimilation of it to traditional Rationalism; a supposed conflict between being innate and learned; an unclear ontology and the need of a 'representational pretense' with regard to it; and, most crucially, a rejection of Chomsky's eliminativism about the role of intentionality not only in his own theories, but in any serious science at all. This last is a fundamentally important issue for linguistics, psychology, and philosophy that an examination of a theory as rich and promising as a Chomskyan linguistics should help illuminate.

Contents:

I. The Core Linguistic Theory. The Core Galilean Idea and Some Crucial Data ; The Basics of Generative Grammars ; Competence/Performance: Determinate I- vs. E-languages ; Knowledge and The Explanatory Project

II. Core Philosophical Views. Grades of Nativism: From Projectability to Brute Process ; Resistence of Even Mental Realists and the Need of Representational Pretence ; Linguistic Intuitions and the Voice of Competence

III. Intentionality. Chomsky and Intentionality ; Linguistic Ontology ; Linguo-Semantics ; Psycho-Semantics of Perceptual Content.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [391]-425) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-259775-2

0-19-188931-8

0-19-259774-4