Linguistics as a Science
This pathbreaking work lays a new foundation for linguistics: It focuses on people rather than on language and is governed by science rather than grammar or philosophy. A linguistics built on this foundation avoids many intellectual problems, it can confront the full observational details of how peo...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press
1986
1986. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009598320406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Questions and clues
- Language and linguistics
- Analysis : the domain of language
- Analysis : the domain of people
- Implications
- A scientific foundation for linguistics
- Laws of communicative behavior
- The linguistic structure of properties of people
- The linguistic structure of communities
- Tests of theory against observation.
