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1 online resource (362 pages) |
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FROM GRAMMAR TO SCIENCE; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; PREFACE; 1. PEOPLE, SOUND WAVES, AND ILLUSIONS; 2. TRADITIONS OFGRAMMAR AND SCIENCE; 3. SHOULD WE STUDYLANGUAGE OR PEOPLE?; 4. THE PROBLEM WITH THEORIES OF LANGUAGE; 5. THE DEPTH HYPOTHESIS; 6. HOW CAN WE KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE?; 7. OPPORTUNITIES IN THE PHYSICAL DOMAIN; 8. STANDARD SCIENCE; 9. PLANS FOR EMIGRATING TO THE NEW WORLD; 10. LINGUISTIC THEORIES OF PEOPLE; 11. PROPERTIES INTHEORIES OF PEOPLE; 12. LAWS OF COMMUNICATIVE BEHAVIOR; 13. A SCIENTIFICALLYJUSTIFIED NOTATION; 14. LINGUISTIC THEORIES OF GROUPS |
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15. relations between individuals and groups16 the group in its environment; 17. types of interaction between groups; 18. the structure of communities; 19. notations for the control of selection; 20. notations for the control of sequence; 21. evidence for the structure of context; 22. how individuals cope in communities; summary; notes; references; index |
| Summary |
Although efforts have been under way for the past two centuries to treat language scientifically, linguists and others who work with language, speech, or communication have not found an adequate scientific foundation in current linguistic theory. Many of the difficulties are caused by longstanding confusions between the logical domain of science and grammar and the physical domain of sound waves and the people who speak and understand. In this book, therefore, the last impediments of tradition, the ancient semiotic-grammatical foundations of linguistics, are set aside. We move into the physical |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Linguistics.
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Linguistics
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linguistics.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Historical & Comparative.
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Linguistics
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
96044622 |
| ISBN |
9789027284075 |
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9027284075 |
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1283158388 |
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9781283158381 |
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9786613158383 |
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6613158380 |
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