The Language Myth |
Contents
A Science of Language | 32 |
The Grammarians Legacy | 54 |
Form and Meaning | 86 |
Copyright | |
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abstraction analysis answer assumption Bloomfield Bugs Bunny claim concept cotemporality described description from ignorance descriptive linguistics dictionary distinction empiricist English exactly example expression fact French grammarian Gulliver's hearer human ibid identify indeterminacy individual integrational linguistics internalised interpretation involved J. L. Austin kind language myth language-user langue layman's less lexical Lilliputian linguistic community linguistic knowledge linguistic theory London meaning merely modern linguistics morpheme newspaper dealer non-linguistic notional definition noun object particular philosophers phonemes phonological plural Port Royal grammar possible postulated principle problem question reason recognise referential indeterminacy relevant respect Ryle Sapir-Whorf hypothesis Saussure Saussurean sceptic science of language segmentation semantic sense sentence signifiant signifié simply speak speakers speech speech act structure substitution suppose synonymy syntactic systematically misleading tachyon telementational terminology theoretical theorists things thought tion traditional grammar traditional grammarian translation underlying understand usage utterance verb verbal whereas word watch