Ignorance of Language

Devitt, Michael

ISBN 10: 0199250960 / ISBN 13: 9780199250967

Edité par Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2006

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Cloth. Fine in dustjacket.; 8vo.

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• Titre: Ignorance of Language
• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom
• Date de parution: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0199250960
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780199250967
• Reliure: Cloth
• Édition: First Edition.
• Poids: 2 livres
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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Synopsis

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.