Author : Stephen O. Murray
Release : 1994
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Theory Groups and the Study of Language in North America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theory Groups and the Study of Language in North America write by Stephen O. Murray. This book was released on 1994. Theory Groups and the Study of Language in North America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Theory Groups in the Study of Language in North America provides a detailed social history of traditions and "revolutionary" challenges to traditions within North American linguistics, especially within 20th-century anthropological linguistics. After showing substantial differences between Bloomfield's and neo-Bloomfieldian theorizing, Murray shows that early transformational-generative work on syntax grew out of neo-Bloomfieldian structuralism, and was promoted by neo-Bloomfieldian gatekeepers, in particular longtime Language editor Bernard Bloch. The central case studies of the book contrast the (increasingly) "revolutionary rhetoric" of transformational-generative grammarians with rhetorics of continuity emitted by two linguistic anthropology groupings that began simultaneously with TGG in the late-1950s, the ethnography of communication and ethnoscience.