Language and Thought

A rational enquiry into their nature and relationship

Amorey Gethin (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

96 Seiten

1999
Intellect Books (Verlag)
978-1-871516-72-2 (ISBN)

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A study of how language and thought relate to each other in the context of a critique of linguistics. This text argues that people learn the meanings of pieces of language by observing how those pieces are used in life.

This is a study of how language and thought relate to each other in the context of a critique of linguistics. The text argues that people learn the meanings of pieces of language by observing how those pieces are used in life. When they fit the meanings of their language together they follow the logic of life. This book shows how personal understanding of language may be used.

What language is; the emptiness of analysis; Chomskyan mistakes made plain; unapplied linguistics; the fantasy of structure; more fantasy of structure; ungenerative grammar; deep confusion; being able to use language; thinking and language; language the corrupter; trying to speak the truth; slavery to authority and the word.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.2.1999
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-871516-72-2 / 1871516722
ISBN-13	978-1-871516-72-2 / 9781871516722
Zustand	Neuware